The phrase "a delicate play" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a performance, situation, or action that requires careful handling or sensitivity.
Example: "The director's latest production is a delicate play that explores the complexities of human relationships."
Alternatives: "a subtle performance" or "a sensitive piece".
Widders is quite a delicate play for a broadcaster fresh from an ageism and sexism discrimination case (Countryfile-gate is its technical name).
("Private Lives" would have been a more apt and economical title, but that was taken.) A delicate play with the transparent texture of a piece of chamber music, it comprises dozens of brief scenes, most with no obvious comic payoff.
The house's exterior glass walls are a delicate play of transparency and reflection, collapsing the boundaries between interior life and the surrounding natural landscape.
Suzanne Glass makes that point nicely in "The Milliner," a delicate new play whose title character provides a stark example of the buzzword "conflicted": It's World War II, and he longs to return to Germany, even though he is Jewish.
Tina Landau's clever and stimulating production turns Barrie's sometimes elaborate stage directions into a character, the Narrator (Keir Dullea), a trope that adds visual and intellectual strength to the delicate play.
(The set, by Jeff Cowie, struck me as being a little too literal and too heavy for Mr. Wilson's delicate play).
The same goes for the director Carl Forsman in a pedestrian revival that smudges the subtleties of Ms. Howe's delicate play (2 10).
This trope adds visual and intellectual strength to the delicate play.
Ms. Bonds doesn't try to do anything more than document that process in this delicate play, and Ms. Fitzpatrick's honest performance helps validate that choice, showing that staying focused on one small point can be a powerful technique.
What I love about the 3D fractals is this delicate play between chance and design.
Possessing a superb pictorial sense for beautiful groupings and movement, he directed the delicate plays of Jean-Jacques Bernard, notably Martine, with admirable subtlety.
