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This dark satyre was quite engaging. At the start,when the harlequin come on stage, you automatically ask yourself wether he's going to be funnyor not and then his performance reveals the quality of his show: an obveous failure.
So the expected laughing becomes cringing. What is funny is thathe's maming a fool of himself. The heckler from the cround doesn't really help by telling the harlequin to make the audence laugh and on top of that the compere seems pretty nerveous about the atmosphere of the evening and tries to save the night bythrowing in a few of his own lame jokes.
The third scene back in the dressing room in the consequence of the cause.

The first scene sets the main character, what he does and makes us care for his success.
At the start of the second scene you care for the audience because they are expected to experience a comedy show which makes you laugh but it doesn't. And then the pity goes to the comedien as his performence shows.
As the harlequin digs his whole deeper and deeper, you can feel the host panic and then he puts his foot in it by tryingout his own humour onthe crowd. At the end you feel bad for the harlequin for getting the sack from the compere.

Most of the interest is on the harlequin because you want him to be funny but he isn't and every time you don't laugh at one joke, you hope for the next to let you enjoy a good joke. this creates a rythm of increasing tention.
At the end you show a bit of simpathy for the compere for being so furieous that his show and the night is ruined by an unskilled comedien which he won't pay.
But as the show reveals itself the point of view is of the audience's.