The play is a Tragic Comedy involving adultery, crude humor, and violent actions.
The voice preaches that the author has written the piece knowing the audience would accept the delight and vulgarity of the puppet show they are about to witness.
During the fight, there are threats and breaking of the fourth wall, and each of them calls out to the other characters to get ready to being the play.
He threatens the Patient demanding money and the Patient tells Cristóbal all the places he has money on his person, a questionable place up his behind being one of them, and Cristóbal begins to beat him multiple times with the stick.
During banter between Mother and Cristóbal, he informs her everyone he meets must tremble before him, and he demands she summon Rosita.
The Poet reenters and addresses the audience how the characters could and should play out but the Director keeps them on a narrow path.
They exit and the Director enters telling Cristóbal that Dona Rosita is not only ill, but she is giving birth.
He eventually beats her to death, addressing the murder and boasting he will find out who the father is, but Mother arises and continues to say the baby is Cristóbal’s child.
The play ends with the Director telling the audience that we only accept the vulgarity and content of the show because its puppets who are delivering the dialogue instead of real actors and Don Cristóbal is a character the ancient spirit of theatre survives.