Quote of the day
War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.
Martin Esslin

Born: June 6, 1918
Died: February 24, 2002 (aged 83)
Bio: Martin Julius Esslin was a Hungarian-born English producer, dramatist, journalist, adaptor and translator, critic, academic scholar and professor of drama, best known for coining the term "Theatre of the Absurd" in his work of the same name.
Known for:
- The theatre of the absurd (1961)
- An anatomy of drama (1976)
- Pinter, the playwright (1982)
- The Field of Drama (1987)
- The age of television (1981)