Quote of the day
Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.
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)