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The phrase "a play at all" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to question the existence or relevance of a play in a given context.
Example: "I didn't think the performance was a play at all; it felt more like a lecture."
Alternatives: "a play whatsoever" or "any kind of play".
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So, why do a play at all? Being a playwright has become like being a poet.
So, why do a play at all? A. Being a playwright has become like being a poet.
He made a couple of dazzling defensive plays in Monday's win, and his finest moment might have come when he chose not to make a play at all.
I don't get cast in plays too often — so not-often, in fact, that several years ago I had to write a solo show, starring me, in order to be in a play at all.
Originally produced in 1968, Alan Bennett's first full-length stage play is not, strictly speaking, a play at all, but an old-school revue set in a very old school.
This scene, with its implied incestuous impulses, is only the first in a series of self-consciously outré setups that are supposed to divert our attention from the fact that "The Book of Grace" may not be a play at all.
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Imogene had just performed in a play at her all-girls school.
GREEN -- Still, one of the things gay people learn to do at a very young age is to read an allegory for themselves into what may not be a gay play at all.
"That wasn't a good play at all," Mets Manager Jerry Manuel said.
He acknowledges the truth that it is hard to write a good play at all whatever sex you are - epic or otherwise.
I didn't think that worked AT ALL in a play translated into English.
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