Jacked! A Beanstalk Remix

Jacked! A Beanstalk Remix at Coterie Theatre

Golden eggs sound like a blessing until the whole village depends on them. Jacked! A Beanstalk Remix flips the familiar story of Jack and his stolen treasure into something sharper and stranger, trading the simple moral of a childhood tale for a hard look at what happens when magic becomes addiction.

Idris Goodwin's play takes the bones of the fairy tale—a struggling family, a desperate climb, a giant's goose—and builds a pointed contemporary parable about substance abuse and the opioid epidemic. Jack still scales the beanstalk. He still grabs the goose. But the golden eggs carry an intoxicating power that spreads through his village like wildfire, turning a solution into a crisis. The Coterie Theatre brings this inventive work to Kansas City with a running time of approximately sixty minutes, recommended for ages ten and older.

The storytelling unfolds through hip-hop, poetry and breakbeats, giving the language rhythm and punch. This isn't a cozy retelling designed to reassure. It's an imaginative adventure wrapped around a serious question: what do we do when the thing that saves us starts to destroy us?

Get tickets for Jacked! A Beanstalk Remix at The Coterie Theatre in Kansas City and follow Jack into a familiar adventure with a dangerous new prize.