In this multimedia production, a comatose man on his way to recovery recreates his identity by delving deeply into his memories, while a circle of family members and loved ones form scheming camps over grave neurological decisions. A profound, often comedic tour of the collective unconscious is coupled with the latest neuroscience in a compelling exploration of how the brain heals itself, and ultimately creates the mind.
Press + Reviews
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Top Ten Los Angeles Theatre Productions
The Huffington Post
#1 - Playwrights Alex Lyras and Robert McCaskill have created a one-of-a-kind, one person show for Lyras, playing David Rosely, a man in a coma telling a mind-bending tale.
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Review: ‘Plasticity’ at Hudson Theatres
Culture Spot LA
Plasticity is ostensibly a one-man show, yet with some half a dozen distinctly different characters that emerge, fade and reappear at various points within the show, you would be forgiven for thinking multiple actors were on stage.
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“Plasticity”: Slow work of the brain, an actor’s quick-change triumph
People’s World
Plasticity, now in a twelve-week run at the Hudson Guild Theatre, is an inventively staged, skillfully acted, provocative and often comedic exploration into the expansive capabilities of the human mind.
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Alex Lyras Tour de Forces in His PLASTICITY
Broadway World
The premiere of PLASTICITY, a one-man show featuring Alex Lyras as an entire cast of characters, has the great fortune of a multi-talented performer in Lyras interpreting a very detailed script written by Lyras and Robert McCaskill. -
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Plasticity Review
Discover Hollywood
A single actor (Alex Lyras, who co-wrote the play with director Robert McCaskill) plays ten separate characters, interacting with the audience and himself through multi-media projections and other stagecraft. -
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Searching for the Disappeared Mind
Santa Monica Daily Press
Playwrights Alex Lyras and Robert McCaskill explore this question in their provocative new play, “Plasticity,” now having its world premiere at the Hudson Guild Theatre in Los Angeles. -
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Plasticity
Stage Scene LA
40 something David Rosely lies comatose as his identical twin Grant and fiancée Kate find themselves in head-to-head combat over his right to live or die. -
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PLASTICITY "✩✩✩✩"
TotalTheatre.com
Hats off to Alex Lyras, Robert McCaskill and the creative team behind the world-premiere production of PLASTICITY, which just opened at the Hudson Guild Theater. -
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PLASTICITY Review - A Multimedia Study of Meaning
Splash LA
PLASTICITY co-author and solo performer Alex Lyras explores the exciting frontiers of science and medicine. -
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What They’re Saying
“A TOUR DE FORCE… STUNNING… one of the more sophisticated technical shows ever put on in a small theatre.”
— Broadway World
“FLUID AND MAGICAL… a technically ambitious show with a richly layered visual concept.”
— KCRW
“[A] TRIUMPH… an inventively staged, often comedic exploration into the expansive capabilities of the human mind… breaks new ground for the vigorous freshness of the production and the discussion that will undoubtedly follow.”
— People’s World
The Collaborators
Alex Lyras & Robert McCaskill
Alex Lyras and Robert McCaskill have collaborated on four shows for the stage: Desperlics, Unequalibrium, (New Playwrights: Best Plays and Best Men’s Monologues for the Twenty First Century) The Common Air (Ovation, LA Drama Critics Awards). All three plays were recently published in a Trilogy by Smith & Krauss. Plasticity, their most recent, premiered at the Hudson Theater in Los Angeles and received an Ovation and LAScenie Award and was first Huff Posts Besst Plays list. As a writing team, they have sold TV pilots to NBC, FOX and Warner Brothers, developed an action comedy for Jerry Bruckheimer and a drama for Joel Silver. They are both members of the Writer’s Guild.