Jacked! A Beanstalk Remix

Jacked! A Beanstalk Remix at Coterie Theatre

Jack knows hunger. His farm won't feed him or the neighbors who depend on it, and his mother can't keep them afloat. So when he swipes a golden-egg-laying goose from a giant, it looks like salvation—until those gleaming eggs become something darker than anyone bargained for.

Jacked! A Beanstalk Remix at the Coterie Theatre takes the old fairy tale and runs it through hip-hop, poetry and breakbeats. Playwright Idris Goodwin uses rhythmic storytelling to turn a children's fable into something that wrestles with substance abuse and the opioid epidemic. The village discovers that those golden eggs carry an intoxicating power, transforming Jack's theft from a triumph into a threat. What was supposed to end poverty instead endangers everyone around him.

The hour-long production doesn't sugarcoat its subject. Recommended for ages ten and older, the show addresses how a solution can morph into a crisis, how treasure can turn toxic. The familiar beanstalk becomes a way into questions about community and consequence, with spoken-word energy driving the stakes home.

Kansas City audiences looking for theater that trusts younger viewers with serious ideas will find it here. Goodwin's remix keeps the fairy-tale bones but builds muscle and urgency around them, using the pulse of hip-hop to ask what happens when the cure becomes the poison.

Secure your seats for Jacked! A Beanstalk Remix at the Coterie Theatre.