Jacked! A Beanstalk Remix

Jacked! A Beanstalk Remix at Coterie Theatre

A stolen goose sounds like the perfect crime—until the golden eggs it lays start destroying everything Jack hoped to save. Jacked! A Beanstalk Remix transforms the familiar climb up the stalk into something far heavier than a simple adventure, using Idris Goodwin's blend of hip-hop, poetry and storytelling to explore how desperation can fuel choices that poison entire communities.

Jack's farm can't feed him or the people around him, and his mother can't offer the support he needs. When he swipes the giant's golden-egg-laying bird, he thinks he's solved their troubles. Instead, those eggs carry an intoxicating power that threatens everyone in the village—a sharp reimagining that connects fairy-tale magic to the opioid epidemic without losing the story's imaginative energy.

The Coterie presents this hour-long work for ages ten and older, remixing the beanstalk tale through breakbeats and contemporary language. What starts as one person's wish to help himself crashes into consequences that ripple outward, turning a childhood story into a lens on substance abuse and the systems that fail families. Giants and geese anchor the fantasy, while the stakes stay rooted in a serious contemporary problem that reshapes the whole familiar frame.

Goodwin's script doesn't soften its subject or abandon its fairy-tale bones. Kansas City audiences will find a story that respects both the wonder of the original and the weight of the question it asks: what happens when the cure becomes the crisis? Grab your ticket to the Coterie Theatre.