AMANILI SINGS - an ancient lullaby from Mesopotamia in Shadow Theater

The above picture shows the market scene.

In the show black cutouts for the scenery are part of the screen. Into them come the colored puppets.An old lady sells grapes, a man sells beer, yet another sells date wine....This is happens in the morning, when Shamash the Sun comes out from between the mountains and Sin the Moon leaves the sky sailing in his boat. In Akkadian the name for the main street was "suku". In Hebrew we call the market the "shuk", same root. Just as the main street in a Roman city was the called the "cardo" ( from cardinal, central, heart, cardiac...) and all along it were the stands with merchandise, also along the suku, the mesopotamians sold their products.In the Old City in Jerusalem you can see a old roman cardo-today a modern "market' of shops selling mainly souvenirs and Judaica.

 Artists and collaborators

 Summary , scenes and characters by order of appearance

  Sources

On lullabies, Lorca and this show.

Photo album.