"God from the machine, the way they'd end the old Greek plays."

It's the name of some cutesy-poo character in an old play.

Let people read the old plays in books if they choose to.

But I wonder if old plays don't have an even tougher time of it.

"Like the character in the old French play who didn't know he was talking prose."

Who would have thought the old play had so much charge left in it?

What was that line from one of her father's old plays?

Marie recognized this as the opening scene in an old play.

He said it was an adaption of an old Japanese religious play.

I think it's quite enough that you're taking a part in his bally old play.