The phrase "a play that allows" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when describing a play that provides an opportunity or permission for something to happen, often in a thematic or narrative context.
Example: "The play is a thought-provoking piece, a play that allows the audience to reflect on their own moral choices."
Alternatives: "a play that permits" or "a play that enables".
I think — and I know Sarah [Cameron Sunde], our director, feels — that this is a play that allows itself to be interpreted in a lot of different ways.
The bad stuff - say, a comedy about the aftermath of Hiroshima (I'm not making that up) - leaves your soul crying out for something sublime, or at the very least a play that allows you to use your brain a little and gives your heart muscles a workout.
Parker remembers how Ginobili made a dramatic 3-pointer at the end of regulation in the first game of the Spurs' second-round series against the Golden State Warriors, a play that allowed the Spurs to win in double overtime.
Instead, Meyer ordered a play that allowed Tebow to throw deep to Percy Harvin for a 40-yard gain that set up Tebow's 2-yard touchdown run that clinched the victory.
Hardaway blamed himself for Phoenix's loss against Boston on Friday, in which he failed to box out Antoine Walker on a play that allowed the Celtics to send the game into overtime.
Watch the calls he gets that few players in this league still get, the kind of respect that makes the most veteran of officials, Joe Crawford, somehow allow Ewing's offensive goaltending in the final minute, a play that allowed Larry Johnson's woefully short 3-pointer to stand up -- even though it was actually tipped in by Ewing.
Hamilton's game-winning homer also was a measure of redemption for the right fielder, who again fumbled a play that allowed Boston to score its seventh run in the eighth inning.
Actually, I even have the sentiment that, a lot of time, to draw I need to embody some other identities, a bit like in a theater play, that allows me to play indifferently male or female parts.
That requires more of a platform play that allows developers to build applications more quickly.
Once groups have completed the research phase of their work, they should write a scene-by-scene outline of a one-act play that allows the scientist(s) responsible for this breakthrough to travel via time-machine to encounter both the beneficial and harmful consequences of their work.
But, fascinating as Peake is to watch, the piece itself feels like a modern morality play that allows little room for argument.
