The phrase "act out a play" is correct and usable in written English.
This phrase typically refers to putting on a performance of a play, usually with costumes, props, and the memorization of lines and blocking. For example, "The theater class is going to act out a play for their final project."
"This is where I can sing and act out a play and do sit-ups at the same time".
I did try and write a play very early on, that I got my friends to act out – a play for five voices.
It's about the beautiful month of May in Paris, and it starts with a voiceover by actress Simone Signoret, saying as only French people could, "It's the most beautiful city in the world and against this set, 8 million Parisians act out a play".
Early on, for instance, you have to act out a lost play before its ghostly author will release you and the treasure they hold.
The opening set the tone: members of the audience were called upon to act out a scene in which a vet (played by the bloke next to me), puts down the narrator's dog (played by, um, a coat) with a lethal injection (er, a pencil).
They could read aloud from copyrighted text material, act out a drama, play or sing a musical work, perform a motion picture or filmstrip, or display text or pictorial material to the class by means of a projector.
"There is no need to act out drama, to play a part," she told them.
As we sit in the genteel cafe of a swanky London hotel, with a playerless piano tinkling Lloyd Webber tunes in the background, Buchan acts out a little two-hander, playing both thickly accented scouser and Andrew Buchan, baffled off-duty thesp.
In the study, published yesterday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, women and men acted out a scene in which they played the part of a boss firing an employee.
For example, if teaching children Shakespeare in a group setting, you might allow them to act out the play rather than read it.
He calls the mental stage on which the qualia supposedly act out their play the Cartesian theatre, after Descartes, the philosopher who thought the soul resided in the pineal gland.
