Jacked! A Beanstalk Remix

Jacked! A Beanstalk Remix at Coterie Theatre

A boy steals a goose to save his family, and the treasure it lays threatens to destroy everyone he loves. Jacked! A Beanstalk Remix takes the classic Jack and the Beanstalk tale and transforms it into something urgent: instead of gold simply buying happily ever after, those glittering eggs carry an intoxicating power that becomes its own danger. At the Coterie Theatre, Idris Goodwin's reimagined story uses the familiar giant-and-beanstalk adventure to wrestle with substance abuse and the opioid epidemic, turning childhood wonder into a reckoning.

Jack's farm can't feed him or his community, and his mother can't support him. That desperation sends him up the beanstalk. But the goose he brings down doesn't deliver the miracle it seems to promise. The golden eggs that should solve hunger instead put the entire village at risk, and the boy who wanted to be a hero has to face what he's unleashed.

Goodwin delivers the story through hip-hop, poetry and breakbeats, giving Kansas City theatergoers a sixty-minute experience that respects younger audiences—recommended for ages ten and older—without softening hard truths. The fairy-tale frame makes the stakes vivid without losing the weight of the real-world crisis it reflects.

Grab tickets for Jacked! A Beanstalk Remix at the Coterie Theatre.