Brutal Youth

This is not the isolated frustration of any particular demographic. This is everybody — at least, everybody who still carries around a part of themselves that's a visionary teenager and mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, and desirous, you might say, of everything at the same time.

Though this is Beirut's new subject matter, almost 20 years after its first production, it's also the real impulse behind every show the Solsters mount at their down-and-dirty best. They do this in the perhaps naive hope that we, their audience, are moved by those same impulses. On a good night at Sol, you get the sense that these quixotic crazies mean to satisfy those impulses. Catch enough good nights, and you almost believe they can.