Jacked! A Beanstalk Remix

Jacked! A Beanstalk Remix at Coterie Theatre

When the treasure you steal to feed your family starts to destroy it instead, you're holding something far more dangerous than gold. Jacked! A Beanstalk Remix takes the fairy tale you remember and turns it into a story about what happens when a desperate solution becomes the very thing that tears a community apart.

Idris Goodwin's play works through hip-hop, poetry and breakbeats, giving Jack's climb up the beanstalk a pulse that matches the urgency of real need. His farm cannot feed him, and his community cannot support him. His mother can't provide support. So Jack does what the old story says he should: he steals the giant's goose. But those golden eggs carry an intoxicating power, and suddenly the village Jack wanted to save is facing a threat he brought home himself.

The Coterie Theatre brings this sixty-minute remix to Kansas City as part of its season, and the story refuses to let anyone off easy. Jack wants to help himself and the people around him, but the consequences ripple outward in ways he never imagined. Goodwin uses the beanstalk framework to explore substance abuse and the opioid epidemic without losing sight of the human choices at the center.

Recommended for ages ten and older, Jacked! earns that guidance by trusting younger audiences with a story that doesn't simplify its questions. Get tickets and discover why this goose’s golden promise is so dangerous.