dames, mime, clowns and costume

Why the absurd costumes , comical with random objects, over-exaggerated, very bizarre costumes. Often involving food, playing on job of house wife? - offering women from that time someone they can assign too? (stereotypically) - panto - relieving from stresses

dame always a man - originally men only plays and then when woman introduced no one wanted to play an older woman. caricature of the older woman. HARELQUIN BECOMES THE CLOWN BECOMES THE DAME. 

'unexpected star - careworn mother, haggard and a bit of a gossip, struggling to cope in this unfriendly world. pantomime crystallises around the story of a dysfunctional family and that strange eccentric figure of the dame.'

domestication of the dame, as mother, imagining problems  as this, problems that audience member knew well, like poverty and unemployment . impersonating the absurd dilemmas of ordinary people

Sad clown - not seen in this position - stripped of role as happy entertainer, what does it then become, sad but sexualised position, can a clown be sexualised, a clowns role is entertainer , sex is entertainment.... a sexualised clown? what would this be?
UGO RONDINONE
The clown is an invention of high nobility to push away boredom and melancholy out of the court
clown as entertainer - but now lying on the floor, quasi-static, mute, flabby (beached whale) - imparting an overwhelming sense of alienation to the viewer- leaving us feeling disconnected... on the other hand, he perhaps appears more human to us, who can really relate to a happy clown, they are merely a distraction, yet here we are confronted with perhaps ourselves.... breaking the rules of the clowns job to distract and entertain.
clown is stripped of role, of freedom and ability to fufill role of the trickster or fool - clowns usually serve the audience, but not here ... but this is questionable.