Jacked! A Beanstalk Remix

Jacked! A Beanstalk Remix at Coterie Theatre

A golden goose sounds like pure fairy-tale fortune until the eggs start destroying everyone who touches them. Jacked! A Beanstalk Remix asks what happens when the treasure Jack steals becomes the poison his village can't resist, turning a childhood story into a lens on the opioid crisis that refuses to look away.

Idris Goodwin rebuilds the beanstalk legend through hip-hop rhythms and spoken-word poetry, stripping away the safe nostalgia most retellings lean on. Jack's farm can't feed him or his neighbors, his mother can't support him, and when he brings home those glittering eggs, their intoxicating power spreads through his community like wildfire. The storytelling mixes breakbeats with the kind of language that makes hard truths land without sermons, giving the Coterie Theatre in Kansas City a 60-minute contemporary fable built for audiences ten and older who are ready for something that challenges as much as it entertains.

This isn't comfort food dressed up with a modern soundtrack. It's a deliberate reckoning with substance abuse framed inside a tale everyone thinks they know, using the familiar giant and goose to explore how desperation, need and false solutions can unravel an entire community. The poetry and rhythm carry the weight without flinching.

Secure your seat at the Coterie for a story that proves fairy tales still have work to do.