Jacked! A Beanstalk Remix

Jacked! A Beanstalk Remix at Coterie Theatre

Jack needs to feed his village, but the treasure he steals to solve that problem becomes something far more dangerous than hunger ever was.

Jacked! A Beanstalk Remix turns a childhood favorite into a contemporary parable at Kansas City's Coterie Theatre, where Idris Goodwin's play fuses hip-hop with the familiar climb up the beanstalk. The work trades the polished rhythm of traditional theater for the pulse of spoken word, poetry and breakbeats—language that moves like the streets Jack walks, not the castle he raids. The fairy tale becomes a vehicle for stories that don't usually share space with giants and magic beans.

The golden eggs Jack brings home don't just glitter. They carry an intoxicating power that spreads through his community, turning salvation into destruction. What seemed like the answer to his mother's struggle and his neighbors' empty bellies threatens to hollow out the village from within. Goodwin addresses substance abuse and the opioid epidemic through the theft of treasure that stops being innocent the moment it lands in human hands.

The hour-long production is recommended for ages ten and older—a signal that this beanstalk grows into territory the sanitized versions avoid. The Coterie stages a fairy tale that refuses to stay safely in the past, where Jack's choices carry the weight of decisions communities face now.

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