I have copied zipped file from the playframework.org website and unzipped it at a location. I have inserted it in my .bashrc profile to set up as PATH environment.
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Not to beat a dead horse but here's another way about it similar to the last post. Just ad an alias to your ~/.bashrc
alias play="/home/usrName/javaApi/play-1.1/play"
According to the .bashrc you could alternately add it to ~/.bash_aliases which seems to be best practice according to the comments in the file.