The phrase "a sort of play" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that resembles or has characteristics of a play, often in a more informal or vague context.
Example: "The performance was a sort of play that blended elements of drama and comedy."
Alternatives: "a kind of play" or "a type of play".
There is clearly a sort of play which does not require us to believe that "anyone behaves in that way".
It's as if Wright were announcing to viewers that he's putting on a sort of play, calling attention in a fussy and petty way to his own artifice.
On it, there are a number of props and would-be characters, who appear to be enacting a sort of play.
They were leaving the show to do a sort of play they had written, "Mrs. Lonsberry's Evening of Horror," but doing the play was a way of leaving Chrisemer.
Patrick Biancone, the French-born trainer who handles Zavata for Michael Tabor, originally wanted to name the bay colt Houdini, as a sort of play on the sire's name, Phone Trick.
In the end, however, she did make a sort of play, a fusion of her own long-term interest in family warfare (see her 1981 "The Catherine Wheel") with Dylan's songs about the generation gap — for example, "The Times They Are A-Changin'".
If you can handle $56 $433 plus tax and processing fee) a person and up, there's no better place than Hollywood to see a sort-of play about movies — Cirque du Soleil's "Iris," which shares the 3,332-seat 3,332-seattre (6801 Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles; www.Kodak Theatrecom) with the annual Oscars ceremony.
The audience, confronted by a sort of play-within-the-play representing late-night television's fundamental tedium, fidgets and laughs.
She pushed back, and he responded by challenging her to a grappling match, a sort of play-wrestling familiar to fantasy battle doyens.
Manafort said that the biggest message Trump hoped to impart to the party's top leadership at the RNC's three-day spring meeting in Hollywood, Florida, is that the frontrunner's critiques of the party and the campaign trail remarks that he's made that have hurt him — and potentially the GOP — with women voters and minorities were all a sort of play-acting that helped him to win primaries.
He says the internal phenomena "tend to be vivid, heightened impressions and impulses of many sorts," often involving "a sort of playing with limits, socially, morally, intellectually, physically, a sort of risky adventurousness". The lack of inhibition can confer "a rich, surprising and sometimes associational freedom" upon those with Tourette.
