The speech of the characters wouldt seem stereotypical if written by a less authentic voice. The cholo culture is one of bravado and swagger often expressed as sarcastic, mocking humor such taunts are built into Alfaro's lyrical, strongly rhythmic, yet simple language, which liberally blends English and Spanish. The women are inked as well - even Abuela, who bears three tattooed crosses for her husband and sons killed in gang wars. Orestes sports enormous Holy Family tattoos on his chest and back. Without the distraction of a lover and with Orestes arriving late on the scene (although we see him earlier in exile), the adaptation is a female mano y mano y mano between mother, daughter, and grandmama with commentary provided by an all-female chorus of neighbors.Д«esides tagging onto a ripping-good story, Alfaro opens a window onto the look, symbols, language, and attitudes of cholo/ chola culture. These changes make Electricidad even more powerfully focused on its women than Electra. Alfaro also has created some characters not found in Euripides at all, most importantly Abuela (grandmother), confidante of Electricidad and enemy of daughter-in-law Clemenica. Orestes has plenty of stage time in this 85-minute play but he's no longer a brother returning from exile, horrified by what he finds and bent on vengeance instead, he's the young cholo crown prince intent on seizing la corona for himself. Clemencia intends to run the barrio herself.ДЄlfaro diminishes the importance of Orestes vis-Г -vis Electricidad. Electra becomes Electricidad, Clytemnestra becomes Clemencia but has no lover: Ama (mother) Clemencia has killed Apa (father) because his drug addiction has sapped his power as a cholo (gang) kingpin. In Alfaro's hands, the ancient Greek kingdom becomes a Southern California barrio where gang leaders are the ruling royalty. All are members of the most cursed family in literary history, the House of Atreus, every one of whom sleeps with a relative or murders one or both. When Clytemnestra and her lover murder Agamemnon and seize the throne, Electra persuades the long-exiled but now returned Orestes to slaughter their mother and her lover in revenge. Electra and Orestes are the grown children of King Agamemnon and Queen Clytemnestra. The original tale is set after the Trojan War.

Now the great tale of revenge and matricide is given a Latino slant in Electricidad by Luis Alfaro, the literary polymath (poet, playwright, short story writer, solo performer) perhaps best known for his plays Straight as a Line and Bitter Homes and Gardens. Few classics have spawned more offspring than Euripides' tragedy Electra, which has been interpreted by Voltaire, Richard Strauss, and Eugene O'Neill, among others.

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