In the recent period, Ella Hickson and Lucy Kirkwood have emerged as two of the most original and impactful voices of contemporary British theatre. In this essay, I shall be discussing their two plays ANNA (2019, directed by Natalie Abrahami) and Mosquitoes (2017, directed by Rufus Norris) respectively, drawing on theoretical frameworks informed by Michel Foucault and Tracy C. Davis. These will allow me to trace the processes of contingency, experiment, rehearsal and execution that both utilize and shape the human body towards the completion of tasks that extend beyond private imperative, into public mission. Such enquiries will also allow me to probe how the body's own intricacies and errancies might interject different layers of agency in high-risk procedures. All the while, my emphasis will remain on the ways in which both Hickson and Kirk-wood construct a profoundly gendered playscape, where networks between female-identifying actors are pivotal towards the conceptualization and execution of certain tasks. The electric body that the title of this piece refers to, then, is equally charged, as I go on to discuss, through a sense of duty; the feeling of being compelled to perform; and internal urges and priorities. Such factors, as will be shown, can both co-exist and antagonize one another.