Jacked! A Beanstalk Remix

Jacked! A Beanstalk Remix at Coterie Theatre

Hip-hop storytelling transforms a familiar fairy tale into something urgent and true when Jacked! A Beanstalk Remix arrives at Coterie Theatre. Idris Goodwin's play layers poetry, breakbeats and hip-hop culture over the bones of Jack and the Beanstalk, creating a rhythm-driven exploration of choices that ripple far beyond one desperate young person.

Jack's farm can't feed him or his community anymore, and his mother can't support him. The giant's goose seems like salvation—until those golden eggs reveal an intoxicating power that threatens to destroy his village. What starts as one boy's survival becomes a crisis affecting everyone he knows, because those eggs don't just promise wealth. They deliver something darker.

Goodwin frames the opioid epidemic through a story everyone already knows, but strips away the nostalgia to ask harder questions. Jack wanted to help himself. He wanted to save his people. Now the very thing he stole to rescue them might be the thing that ruins them. The Coterie brings this sixty-minute work to Kansas City for audiences ten and older, offering a contemporary story where fairy-tale stakes meet real-world consequences.

Sometimes the most familiar stories can carry the sharpest truths. Get tickets for Jacked! A Beanstalk Remix at The Coterie Theatre in Kansas City.