What happens when the landscape screams back? Is her haunting voice loud enough to make the forest tremble? Mandragora is a contemporary folk tale: a joyful act of transformation and the queer resistance of unstable bodies. The ancient legacy of the mandrake root – a unique plant-human hybrid – spans thousands of years of history. From Mesopotamia to the Middle Ages, her magical and medicinal properties were harnessed and traded across Europe and beyond. When the church and state systematically erased healers and their communities during the medieval witch hunt, they also severed the rootsongs of care and knowledge to the land, and weeded botanical ecologies associated with magic. The mandragora slowly disappeared from recorded history, but never left the soil. On stage, uprooted and uplifted, her catchy songs weave a tale as old as the earth herself: of empires and spells, of love and resistance. ~~~~ the one and only Erik Peters (DAI, 2026) invites you to the Amsterdam Fringe Festival 2026 on 7, 9,10,11 September !