From the book “Staff, Stick and Executioner” - a collection of three plays by E. Jelinek, winner of the 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature. The style of this play is square. The author shocks the reader with a mixture of rough and refined techniques, makes him shudder and think about human nature - a bizarre mixture of animal instincts and lofty thoughts. The production of the comedy "Roadside Snack" at the Vienna Burgtheater caused a noisy scandal. Almost no one in Austria came out in defense of E. Jelinek, and she generally wanted to abandon the drama genre. Yet one tragic and scandalous event, the daring murder of four gypsies, forced the writer to return to this genre and create an even more uncomfortable and acutely social play “The Staff, the Stick and the Executioner.”