No two performances are the same, and once a play is taken off the bill, it dwindles into oblivion. Before leaving Den Nationale Scene Tom Remlov decided that if something was to be learned from The Bergen Project, it ought to be properly documented. The first part of the book is an attempt to sum up what lessons can be learned from The Bergen Project about the relationship between playwright an theatre. The second part of Avmaktens dramatikk is a literary analysis of the 60 plays involved. The male protagonists of these plays all seem weak, impotent or self destructive.
Fathers are devoid of positive attributes, devoid of any masculinity to pass on to their sons.
Men are either destructive monsters or pathetic weaklings who are forced to leave their home. The traditional roles, as seen in Ibsen's A Doll's House, are reversed. Helmer flees Nora. Any ambitions outside of the personal domain are strictly taboo. The playwrights of the last decade have shown a complete indifference towards politics and social criticism.