Jacked! A Beanstalk Remix

Jacked! A Beanstalk Remix at Coterie Theatre

Jack's farm won't feed him or anyone he knows, and his mother has given up trying. So when golden eggs fall into his hands, they look like salvation—until the village discovers what those eggs actually cost.

Jacked! A Beanstalk Remix takes the fairy tale you remember and reshapes it into something urgent, using hip-hop, poetry and breakbeats to tell a story that hits closer to home than any enchanted vine. Idris Goodwin pulls the familiar pieces—the desperate boy, the impossible treasure, the community in need—and bends them toward the opioid crisis. That giant's goose doesn't just lay gold. Those eggs carry an intoxicating power that threatens to destroy the very people Jack wanted to save. The question stops being whether he can steal the treasure and becomes whether he should have taken it at all.

The Coterie Theatre in Kansas City brings this sixty-minute work to families with kids ten and up, which means the storytelling doesn't dodge the hard questions or wrap everything in comfort. Jack's choice between solving hunger and spreading danger turns a childhood classic into a mirror held up to a crisis that's devastated real towns and real families. Breakbeats and spoken word carry the weight without simplifying it.

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