I am sure you remember O amante brasileiro<\/em><\/strong> is a play structured around an exchange of e-mails between two characters, Clara and S\u00e9bastien, Claude\u2019s husband. Clara and S\u00e9bastien truly love each other. What they desire is harmony. If by chance either of them doesn\u2019t know how to act to coincide with the other, he or she simply does nothing. Until finding out.<\/p>\n Kindness is the word that best suits these two lovers. Because true love \u2013 a rare flower \u2013 has friendship as its reference, and betrayal is as strange to it as is the feeling of having been betrayed.<\/p>\n Although the play was not written to teach this or that, its earliest readers saw in it the instrument of reeducation about love \u2013 and it is quite true that there are two lessons in O amante brasileiro<\/em><\/strong>. The first is that love is a rite that depends both on the word and the reality of the encounter \u2013 which the Internet favors but does not propitiate. The second is that love is only happy when understanding between the partners is placed above orgasm.<\/p>\n Only communion makes eternity resonate, as Clara says in one of her many e-mails to S\u00e9bastien, or rather, Sebasti\u00e3o, for though he was born in France he was rebaptized in the waters of Brazil.<\/p>\n The play is in four acts and has three actors. An actress in the role of Clara, a male actor in the role of S\u00e9bastien, and an actress in the role of Claude.<\/p>\n After publishing O amante brasileiro <\/strong>with Editora Girafa in 2003, Betty Milan adapted the novel for the theater. As soon as the first version of the play closed, the author received in her home in Paris the Teatro Oficina actors, on their return from the tour of Os sert\u00f5es<\/em> in Germany. The group used the opportunity to do a table reading of the text, followed by a cast party. The play was later read at Teatro Oficina on February 16, 2004, and at the auditorium of the Folha de S. Paulo<\/em> on March 2, 2004, by Luciana Domschke and Ricardo Bittencourt, members of the Oficina, directed by Frans\u00e9rgio Ara\u00fajo. Also in 2004, the play was mounted at Teatro Oficina with the same cast and director. On that occasion the author, Betty Milan, played the role of Claude. The production was a critical success.<\/p>\n![\"o-amante-brasileiro\"](\"https:\/\/www.bettymilan.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/o-amante-brasileiro.jpg\")
The lovers: Luciana Domschke (Clara) e Ricardo Bittencourt (S\u00e9bastien)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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\nbecause it seems it was yesterday
\nwe are in the elevator in the building where you live
\nI tell you what I said to my son before leaving: \u201cSee you later, I\u2019m on my way, I\u2019m meeting my Brazilian friend\u201d
\nyou laugh because you\u2019re my lover and you\u2019re French
\nand you come out with: The Brazilian Lover<\/em>, that\u2019s the title of the play, Eva<\/p>\n
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