SOURCE: Koehler, Robert. “Wunderbar Staging of Dying Out.” Los Angeles Times 104 (1 August 1985): 2 sec. 6.

In the following review, Koehler gives a positive assessment to Rolf Brauneis's staging of Handke's Die Unvernünftigen sterben aus.

Peter Handke's German theater doesn't transfer easily to our cultural landscape. The comedy tends to be more emphatic and dichotomous than we're used to, the drama often highly expressionistic and political. And the language defiantly resists translation.

Against those odds, Los Angeles has had two fine stagings in a row of two of Handke's major works: last year's Kaspar at the Night-house, and now translator/director Rolf Brauneis' compelling version of The Unreasonable Are Dying Out at the Wallenboyd.

Brauneis, a quiet man with a countenance seemingly chiseled from a block of stone, has a few surprises in store for those who would like to meet the director who's elicited some very electric ensemble performances...