In the SGU’s latest theater department production Electra was seemingly themed in the 1970’s or 1980’s. The play had guns and cargo pants set in a war torn land. Although these drastic changes were made from the original play the storyline did not vary too much. The human experience was still revenge, finding and exacting it. This play did a great job of showing the pull between Electra and her sister Chrysothemis also Electra’s own struggle with insanity. What this play did best was show that striving for revenge and obtaining it will not make one feel complete and one often loses their self along the way. The goal of many of the characters in this play is to obtain vengeance. Even the murder of Agamemnon was supposedly revenge for sacrificing
