The phrase "as a play within" is not correct and lacks clarity in written English.
It may be intended to describe something that functions like a play within a larger context, but it needs additional context to be fully understood.
Example: "The author cleverly structured the narrative as a play within the story, allowing the characters to express their thoughts directly."
Alternatives: "as a drama within" or "as a performance within".
It's not surprising that the old way of presenting flamenco onstage wouldn't be very interesting for Mr. Saura, who filmed a documentary-style "Carmen" (as a play within a play) that eschewed Bizet's music for original compositions, and a vérité-style "Blood Wedding".
It's a larky, high-spirited production that operates as a play within a play.
Warten Auf Godot incorporates the full text – to be performed in German – but framed as a play within a play.
He does not want "Cosi" to be the way it is, and so he neatly withdraws its sting by offering it as a play within a play.
The central plot, about a father who decides to sell his schoolgirl daughter for the price of two oxen, is presented as a play within a play.
Ms. Lloyd has staged "Caesar" as a play within a play, in which the women are not themselves Roman senators but prisoners putting on a show.
In one way this version is truer to the original concept than most traditional stagings are because it includes the playwright's so-called induction scene, which introduces the action in the first act as a play-within-a-play.
Reviving the play 47 years on, Neilson treats Peter Weiss's re-enactment of scenes from the French revolution, performed as a play-within-a-play by patients from Charenton Asylum, as a modern fable that absorbs everything from the Arab spring to consumerism.
Love's Labour's Lost isn't an easy play to bring off: an early comedy with a convoluted plot (as well as various sub-plots and a play-within-a-play), complex language including Latin, puns and wordplay, and an unusually ambivalent ending, which skirts dangerously towards tragedy.
Now they have some competition: a play within a sculpture, as a cast performs a 90-minute text in a continuous loop daily for eight hours.
Clarke's voice gives another perspective, and the didgeridoo player provides almost a play within a play himself, as he bends and shapes sound and presents an indigenous view on the unfolding events.
