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		<title>Flora the Red Menace</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 17:04:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roy Maurer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first big production number from Flora the Red Menace, “One Good Break,” a paean to young seekers everywhere, couldn’t be more apt as the theme behind the show’s creation. For musical theater enthusiasts, Flora the Red Menace is a dear artifact. In 1965, the legendary Harold Prince, who is still working as a producer, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paul Nasto&#8217;s new sound for Flora the Red Menace</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 14:30:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason McCool</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Musical theatre lovers along the Eastern seaboard have begun to buzz about what’s been menacing the team over at 1st Stage in Tysons Corner, VA. On tap for the ambitious young company is a brand new, re-envisioned production of the rarely produced Flora the Red Menace, the very first theatrical collaboration of legendary songwriters Kander and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flora&#8217;s first opening night</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 17:29:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Seff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[May 11th marked the 47th anniversary of the opening of a Broadway musical by a new songwriting partnership, brought together by a Broadway agent working on his first big show, and introducing an unknown 19 year old as its star. And as if on cue, that musical is getting ready to be reborn when it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wall Street Journal&#8217;s Teachout drops in on 1st Stage</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/04/17/wall-street-journals-teachout-drops-in-on-1st-stage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 14:58:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Treanor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Occasionally the great theater critics from the major New York cultural organs – the Times, the New Yorker, the Wall Street Journal – will come to Washington to review important productions playing in our biggest venues: the Kennedy Center, Arena Stage, the Shakespeare Theatre. The Wall Street Journal’s Terry Teachout, in town to see Strange [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Side Man at 1st Stage</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/04/03/side-man-at-1st-stage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 15:56:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Debbie Jackson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michael Dove’s direction and nearly flawless casting of Side Man makes for a terrific production at 1st Stage.   Playwright Warren Leight captures the flair and style of the jazzy big band era as seen through the experiences of the “side man,” a jazz term for a freelance musician who can just as easily solo as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Three Bears</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/02/14/three-bears/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 14:07:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Galbraith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What do you get when you cross three bears, reportedly kicked out on their hinies from the Kennedy Center, with an Animal Control cop from Fairfax County, whose dream is to feature his golden corkscrew curls in a Breck commercial?  A bodacious, bureaucratic-bashing, barely believable but baringly Bear-way show. It’s a somewhat goofy premise but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Almost, Maine</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/02/08/almost-maine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:35:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Hallex</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to winter wonderland, presented by 1st Stage.  If you&#8217;ve been to this theater, things will seem a little different this time.  The arena-like seating is curtained off for the performance, and chairs are placed in the round on the stage itself.  Getting to your seats will be tricky with very strict no-walking-on-the-stage’s-set rules in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Parfumerie</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/12/21/parfumerie/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 13:14:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Hallex</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you like comedy that makes you smile as well as laugh you can’t do much better than 1st Stage’s presentation of Miklós László’s Parfumerie.  Audiences on this side of the world are not particularly familiar with this play from its title &#8211; written in Hungary in 1936, the comedy has been a favorite in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The How and the Why</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/11/02/the-how-and-the-why/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 12:47:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven McKnight</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A central question for any two character play is whether the playwright can keep the audience interested.  Sarah Treem’s The How and the Why succeeds through an intelligent blend of personal, political, and intellectual conflicts in an absorbing  new production at 1st Stage. Nora Achrati (left) as Rachel Hardiman Elizabeth Pierotti as Zelda Kahn (Photo: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Dress for Dinner</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/09/13/dont-dress-for-dinner/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:04:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven McKnight</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are looking for a crowd pleaser to open your theatre’s season, a fine farce like Don’t Dress for Dinner is an excellent choice.  1st Stage launches its new year with an enjoyable production of a famous French classic work from the late Marc Camoletti, best known as the author of the recent successful [...]]]></description>
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		<title>By Jeeves</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/05/30/by-jeeves/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 May 2011 20:33:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Treanor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How light is the Andrew Lloyd Webber/Alan Ayckbourn musical now playing at 1st Stage? Imagine a chiffon pie, covered with whipped cream and meringue. It is lighter than that. Imagine a field of chipmunks floating on helium balloons. It is lighter than that. Imagine The Unbearable Lightness of Being, made not only bearable but turned [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Glass Menagerie</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/04/06/the-glass-menagerie-5/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2011 12:19:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven McKnight</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Tennessee Williams Centennial Festival has closed, but 1st Stage&#8217;s sensitive and skilled rendition of The Glass Menagerie allows us to revel in the talent of the great Tennessee Williams once again. Lucas Beck as Tom and Elizabeth Pierotti as Amanda (Photo courtesy of 1st Stage) The Glass Menagerie was William&#8217;s first great play and is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fuddy Meers</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/02/11/fuddy-meers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Feb 2011 13:22:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ted Ying</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Life is already chaotic and amusing enough when your life is somewhat normal.  Add in a peculiar twist and your day can really take a left turn into the Twilight Zone.  “Good morning.  How are you?  How would you like to get dressed.  You really like this dress.  Would you like to have some breakfast?”  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Mousetrap</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2010/12/15/the-mousetrap-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Dec 2010 11:36:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven McKnight</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Can an Agatha Christie mystery still be interesting if you already know who did it?  Thanks to a talented cast and a polished production from 1st Stage, the answer is a solid “Yes.” Suzanne Richard as Mrs. Boyle (foreground), Karl Bittner as Christopher Wren and John Stange and Jennifer Weinreich as Giles and Mollie Ralston [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Holiday</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2010/10/27/holiday/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Oct 2010 11:14:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven McKnight</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hard-working corporate lawyer Johnny Case wants to use an eminent business score to “retire early and work late” so he can experience life.  This plan is a surprise to his heiress fiancée, a delight to her rebellious sister, and an anathema to her wealthy banker father.  Such is the plot behind Philip Barry’s Holiday, a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mauritius</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2010/09/13/mauritius-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Sep 2010 13:23:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Treanor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“I’m so glad nobody was killed,” an audience member, walking past me, remarked to a companion. Well, of course, murder was on the table. We’re talking about stamp collecting, aren’t we? Mauritius is a love story – a story about love of stamps, and love of money, and other, mostly doomed, love drifting mysteriously through [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Suburban Motel</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2010/06/14/suburban-motel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 12:26:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Treanor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“When I think about things I don’t understand, I get depressed,” says dimbulb R.J. (Ryan Tumulty) in Risk Everything, the better of the two George F. Walker one-acts now being produced by 1st Stage. R.J. gets depressed a lot. But for the rest of us, in a context where truth is as elusive as quicksilver, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Humble Boy</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2010/03/28/humble-boy-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Mar 2010 15:20:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Treanor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tell me if you think this is funny: A young man is called home from his studies upon the sudden death of his father. Arriving, he discovers his mother in the arms of a local vulgarian, Matt Dewberry as Felix and Martha Karl as Mercy (Photo: 1st Stage) and despite the efforts of his mother’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>By the Bog of Cats</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2010/02/14/by-the-bog-of-cats-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2010 21:24:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Treanor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[1st Stage’s slam-bang production, brings us into Carr’s nightmarish universe at the speed of thought, and keeps us there relentlessly for two and a half hours.]]></description>
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		<title>The Prisoner of Zenda</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2009/12/15/the-prisoner-of-zenda-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 13:47:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven McKnight</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The ambitious young company at 1st Stage has had a run of successful productions, but the law of inevitability may have caught up with them with this production of the classic swashbuckler The Prisoner of Zenda. Sorry to report it is only average as a result of a flawed script and an overly melodramatic style. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Three Days of Rain</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2009/11/02/three-days-of-rain-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:11:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Treanor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A play consists of a story and its telling. The story needn’t be particularly compelling – “my uncle murdered my father and is sleeping with my mother” is a little Jerry Springer-ish, but it will do in a pinch – if the telling is good. However, there must be a story. Richard Greenberg has no [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Game of Love and Chance</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2009/09/15/the-game-of-love-and-chance-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:48:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven McKnight</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are looking for an enjoyable trip to the theatre, The Game of Love and Chance is a delightful option.  1st Stage opens its season with a charming and energetic production of the classic farce. Silvia (Beth Rothschild) is about to be introduced to Dorante (Jacob Yeh) for a possible arranged marriage.  The refined [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shakespeare&#8217;s R &amp; J</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2009/06/15/shakespeares-r-j/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 12:45:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Treanor</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://dctheatrescene.com/?p=6928</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Consider four young men &#8211; let&#8217;s call them Romeo, Mercutio, Benvolio and Tybalt, but really, they could be anyone &#8211; on the very cusp of their adolescence.  Chemicals course through their bloodstreams, calling their brains to love and violence. Their world is run by people their parents&#8217; age, all of whom seem like fools and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Red Herring</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2009/04/05/red-herring-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2009 16:08:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Treanor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a play about secrets. Big secrets. O.K., I can say this much &#8211; playwright Michael Hollinger (Opus)? He&#8217;s the real deal. And director Jessica Lefkow (Honey Brown Eyes)? She&#8217;s the real deal, too. And this company, 1st Stage? They are the real deal, for real. For shizzle, baby. Maybe I can say this: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pig Farm</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2009/02/16/pig-farm-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2009 14:37:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Treanor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pig Farm By Greg Kotis Directed by Mark Kirkstan Produced by 1st Stage Reviewed by Tim Treanor When Pig Farm showed at the Contemporary American Theater Festival last year, you couldn&#8217;t tell that it was a comedy until people started getting killed. Not so for 1st Stage&#8217;s riotous staging of the latest from the creator [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Violet Hour</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2008/11/23/the-violet-hour/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Nov 2008 21:39:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Treanor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I want to talk to you about something very serious. But because you have engaged me here to review theater, and not to discuss cultural problems generally, I must save these remarks until later, and first tell you about what I have just seen. What I have just seen is very good &#8211; a sizzling, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Suicide</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2008/10/11/the-suicide/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Oct 2008 15:05:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Treanor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Suicide by Nicolai Erdman, translated and adapted by John Freedman produced by 1st Stage directed by Mark Krikstan reviewed by Tim Treanor Pity poor Semyón Semyónovich (Lucas Beck). He lives in a glorious worker&#8217;s republic, and yet he has no job! His most recent scheme &#8211; to win untold riches, and to thus be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A New Professional Theatre Comes to McLean</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2008/10/07/a-new-professional-theatre-comes-to-mclean/</link>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2008/10/07/a-new-professional-theatre-comes-to-mclean/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 19:40:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lorraine Treanor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Lorraine Treanor 1st Stage, a new professional theatre company has debuted in the Spring Hill/Tysons area and in its own brand new theatre space. Had they consulted economists, the 1st Stage group of friends might not have proceeded with plans to take on the responsibility of building a new theater space in a climate [...]]]></description>
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