"play act" is correct and usable in written English.
It is commonly used to describe an action that imitates or exaggerates real behavior in order to create a dramatic effect, such as when an actor pretends to be someone else on stage. For example: The actor showcased his talent when he play acted a dramatic scene in the play.
You make a great play, act like you've done it before; get a big hit, look for the third base coach and get ready to run the bases".
A small ensemble of musicians and singers play, act and clamber over four large pallet structures, vanishing inside a Tardis-like "making machine", playing a honky-tonk piano painted in bright colours, or employing kitchen utensils to make imaginative percussive sounds.
And because they never pretended to be anything but "punk rock white kids", they taught hip-hop fans who weren't black, who weren't from the street, that they shouldn't play act at being anything other than who they were when listening to hip-hop.
Another effort, the Fair Pay, Fair Play Act — which would require terrestrial-radio companies to begin paying royalties to audio-recording-rights holders, as well as to songwriters, alongside some reforms to the digital-music industry — was introduced in the House of Representatives in 2015.
If the touring company's tribulations were a play, Act I would show the financially strapped company's executive director being told in late 2004 by the federal Education Department that Congress is eliminating a grant program that has been contributing $687,000 a year to the theater's coffers, roughly two-thirds of the previous year's budget.
A play act, a lesson: learn it and learn it well.
Mr. Niesen has even brought Barrie into the play, acted by Damen Scranton.
They appear like beings from another world, or characters in a tragic play acted dimly behind thin curtains.
The family lined up with suitcases, they took off their shoes, they play acted the whole thing".
Anger was detected correctly more often when play acted than when authentic, whereas sadness was detected correctly more often when authentic than when play acted.
To support communications between the member and their providers, mock scenarios were play acted between the nurse and members requiring this level of assistance.
