
I believe in the legend of love MITEM
Jan Fabre wrote I believe in the legend of love in the form of a letter from a man to his beloved. The outcome is a truly personal text, about loving and letting go. The play emphasizes the right to dispose of one's own life, specifically the end of one's life. It is written with empathy and respect for life, love and death.
One evening Lancelot steps off a bridge, from life to death. Standing on the bridge, he wonders how his living body will fall. Will he float and defy gravity? Or will he fall and crash downwards? Lancelot's words are addressed to his dear princess until they suddenly stop, when the step to endless nothingness has been taken.
The text was inspired by Bobbie Gentry's song 'Ode to Billy Joe'.