The phrase "a state of play" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to describe the current situation or status of a particular issue or context, often in discussions about strategy or analysis.
Example: "Before we proceed with the project, let's assess the state of play regarding our competitors."
Alternatives: "current situation" or "status quo".
Music, in other words, brings musicians into a state of play.
After all, everything else about Reid's remarks and the furious days leading up to them reflected a state of play between the two parties, and the two men, that no conventional dictionary would ever describe as amicable.
I was fascinated by the voice of the man from the commentator's heavens who announced the absence of a state of play in a tone which to me seemed tinged with the hubris of one allowed to invoke official disappointment.
This will turn it into a conversation in which people of all genders will speak out about how unacceptable this is as a state of play in 2017.
Major wind power projects are now stalled amid a shortage of finance and uncertainty over the rules going forward -- a state of play threatening to eliminate tens of thousands of jobs.
Starting with giving us mere seconds to come up with our personal purpose (focus!), Sunday put us through energetic exercises -- including intense laughter, tossing a ball around and screaming any words that came to mind around a theme (ours was "mushrooms") -- Sunday got us into a state of "play".
This study was led under conditions enabling a state-of-play of ongoing practices without the physicians responsible for WoWt decisions being pressured by any moral dilemma between the individual interest of the dying patient and the collective benefit for potential graft recipients.
If you altered a few local references, you could put this on at the National as a state-of-England play (and I sort of hope someone does).
"Jerusalem," you see, is partly a state-of-the-nation play, the nation being Britain.
Jerusalem, you see, is partly a state-of-the-nation play, the nation being Britain.
If ever there was a state-of-the-nation play, this is it.
