In 2017 the phrase “Ramalama Ding Dong” was repeatedly sneered at Roshi by a stranger on a train after he briefly heard her speak Farsi to her family. To her surprise, friends urged reporting it as a hate crime. Essex police confirmed that it was, part of a general rise in racist hate crime since 2016.
Roshi started to recount the story, exploring ways of delivery that combine experiments with stand-up and sound art: using vocal processing technologies to create repetitious effects to the point of absurdity, aiming for provocation without becoming preachy. She added further accounts of real-life racism, realising that while racism is no laughing matter it can be risible, surreal and even darkly funny.
At CPT's Shape Of Things To Come Festival, the work-in-progress drew comparisons to Stewart Lee, Meredith Monk, Hannah Gadsby. Roshi is now ready to present Ramalama Ding Dong in all its colours.
With support from an ACE Project's Grant, a Covid 19 bursary from Sound & Music, rehearsal space from CPT and NewDiorama Theatre plus a wonderful creative team:
Music Consultant - Mariam Rezaei (TOPH)
Script editors - David Stubbs (Bill Bailey, Alan Davies) and Kerry Andrew (Skin)
Visuals and lighting design - Al Orange (Imove)
Director - Peyvand Sadeghian (Dual)
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