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Burt Caesar
Burt Caesar is a British actor, broadcaster and director for stage and television, who was born in St Kitts and migrated to England with his family as a child. His career has encompassed acting in Bond films (Skyfall, 2012), stage performances including in Shakespearian roles, and many plays for BBC Radio 4. Caesar regularly works as a director and is an artistic advisor at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA). He is also a commentator on theatre and literature.
As a stage actor, Caesar has had roles that include in Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard (Birmingham Rep and Market Theatre, Johannesburg, with Janet Suzman), as Capulet in Romeo and Juliet (Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith), Macduff in Macbeth (St Barts, New York City International Festival of Theatre), as well as in productions of other Shakespeare plays such as Othello, The Merchant of Venice, Julius Caesar and The Tempest (Liverpool Everyman). His other theatre includes Noises Off by Michael Frayn, Crusade (Stratford East), Athol Fugard's My Children! My Africa! (Watermill Theatre), Fanny Kemble, Blood Knot, Steve Carter's Eden (Riverside Studios, 1990), James Baldwin's Blues for Mister Charlie (Crucible Theatre, Sheffield), In Self Defence, Caryl Churchill's Serious Money (Royal Court), Douglas Jerrold's Black-Eyed Susan (Oxford Playhouse, 1987), Judith, Carnival War (Royal Court), Sergeant Ola (Royal Court), Strange Fruit, and The Miser. His performance as "Old Mack" in Errol John's Moon on a Rainbow Shawl, which opened in 2012 at the Cottesloe Theatre, with a subsequent tour in 2014, received widely positive notice, being described by Theatre News Online as "compelling in his choreographed smoothness" and by The Guardian theatre critic Michael Billington as "richly remarkable". Caesar's 2015 performance in Timberlake Wertenbaker's Jefferson's Garden at the Watford Palace Theatre was also well received.
Caesar has given acclaimed readings of Derek Walcott's long poem "The Schooner Flight" both on stage and radio.
Caesar's radio work includes frequent performances in plays, including a dramatisation by Margaret Busby of C. L. R. James's novel Minty Alley, first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1998, Biyi Bandele's 2002 dramatisation of Oroonoko by Aphra Behn, Patricia Cumper's dramatisation of Andrea Levy's Small Island, broadcast in 2004, and Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida in 2005, the play's first radio production for more than 20 years.
In August 2007, Caesar's Radio 4 programme To Sir, With Love Revisited, directed by Mary Ward-Lowery, about E. R. Braithwaite's 1959 autobiographical account of teaching at a school in the East End of London, was described by The Guardian′s reviewer as "utterly charming radio". Caesar's feature Black Students in Red Russia – which among other interviews included one with Jan Carew, author of the 1964 novel Moscow Is Not My Mecca – was chosen by the New Statesman as a "Pick of the Week" when the programme was broadcast on Radio 4 (again produced by Ward-Lowery) in January 2009.
Also that year, Caesar presented Black Screen Britain, a two-part Radio 4 documentary series exploring how British film and television drama portrayed post-war African-Caribbean migrants and created opportunities for pioneering black actors. He is a regular reader of poetry and short stories on a variety of programmes, including Poetry Please. On the programme A Good Read in 2010, Caesar's choice of book was C. L. R. James's 1963 memoir Beyond a Boundary.
In 2011, Caesar presented a BBC Radio 4 programme about pioneering publisher John La Rose, founder of New Beacon Books, entitled What We Leave We Carry: The Legacy of John La Rose, which was produced by Julian May and featured contributions by Sarah White, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Margaret Busby, Susan Craig-Jones and Gus John.
In April 2017, Caesar performed at the Arcola Theatre in The Plague, based on the 1947 novel of the same name (originally La Peste) by Albert Camus, adapted and directed "with great ingenuity" by Neil Bartlett.
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Burt Caesar
Burt Caesar is a British actor, broadcaster and director for stage and television, who was born in St Kitts and migrated to England with his family as a child. His career has encompassed acting in Bond films (Skyfall, 2012), stage performances including in Shakespearian roles, and many plays for BBC Radio 4. Caesar regularly works as a director and is an artistic advisor at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA). He is also a commentator on theatre and literature.
As a stage actor, Caesar has had roles that include in Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard (Birmingham Rep and Market Theatre, Johannesburg, with Janet Suzman), as Capulet in Romeo and Juliet (Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith), Macduff in Macbeth (St Barts, New York City International Festival of Theatre), as well as in productions of other Shakespeare plays such as Othello, The Merchant of Venice, Julius Caesar and The Tempest (Liverpool Everyman). His other theatre includes Noises Off by Michael Frayn, Crusade (Stratford East), Athol Fugard's My Children! My Africa! (Watermill Theatre), Fanny Kemble, Blood Knot, Steve Carter's Eden (Riverside Studios, 1990), James Baldwin's Blues for Mister Charlie (Crucible Theatre, Sheffield), In Self Defence, Caryl Churchill's Serious Money (Royal Court), Douglas Jerrold's Black-Eyed Susan (Oxford Playhouse, 1987), Judith, Carnival War (Royal Court), Sergeant Ola (Royal Court), Strange Fruit, and The Miser. His performance as "Old Mack" in Errol John's Moon on a Rainbow Shawl, which opened in 2012 at the Cottesloe Theatre, with a subsequent tour in 2014, received widely positive notice, being described by Theatre News Online as "compelling in his choreographed smoothness" and by The Guardian theatre critic Michael Billington as "richly remarkable". Caesar's 2015 performance in Timberlake Wertenbaker's Jefferson's Garden at the Watford Palace Theatre was also well received.
Caesar has given acclaimed readings of Derek Walcott's long poem "The Schooner Flight" both on stage and radio.
Caesar's radio work includes frequent performances in plays, including a dramatisation by Margaret Busby of C. L. R. James's novel Minty Alley, first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1998, Biyi Bandele's 2002 dramatisation of Oroonoko by Aphra Behn, Patricia Cumper's dramatisation of Andrea Levy's Small Island, broadcast in 2004, and Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida in 2005, the play's first radio production for more than 20 years.
In August 2007, Caesar's Radio 4 programme To Sir, With Love Revisited, directed by Mary Ward-Lowery, about E. R. Braithwaite's 1959 autobiographical account of teaching at a school in the East End of London, was described by The Guardian′s reviewer as "utterly charming radio". Caesar's feature Black Students in Red Russia – which among other interviews included one with Jan Carew, author of the 1964 novel Moscow Is Not My Mecca – was chosen by the New Statesman as a "Pick of the Week" when the programme was broadcast on Radio 4 (again produced by Ward-Lowery) in January 2009.
Also that year, Caesar presented Black Screen Britain, a two-part Radio 4 documentary series exploring how British film and television drama portrayed post-war African-Caribbean migrants and created opportunities for pioneering black actors. He is a regular reader of poetry and short stories on a variety of programmes, including Poetry Please. On the programme A Good Read in 2010, Caesar's choice of book was C. L. R. James's 1963 memoir Beyond a Boundary.
In 2011, Caesar presented a BBC Radio 4 programme about pioneering publisher John La Rose, founder of New Beacon Books, entitled What We Leave We Carry: The Legacy of John La Rose, which was produced by Julian May and featured contributions by Sarah White, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Margaret Busby, Susan Craig-Jones and Gus John.
In April 2017, Caesar performed at the Arcola Theatre in The Plague, based on the 1947 novel of the same name (originally La Peste) by Albert Camus, adapted and directed "with great ingenuity" by Neil Bartlett.