Red Black and Ignorant

In an interview with The Guardian on 16 January 1984, Bond spoke of the circumstances surrounding his writing of Red Black and Ignorant and of his key concerns expressed in that play ... 

Innocence has not (at the time of writing) been performed. It is set in the later decades of the twenty-first century and in that sense is futuristic. It is dystopian and relates to some extent to Bond s previously discussed The Crime of the Twenty-First Century. It explores a remnant of humanity rediscovering and rebuilding itself in the wake of a cataclysmic event. One also feels the reverberations of an even earlier play. Red Black and Ignorant (1984), from The War Plays trilogy. 

However, the significant development and evolution in Bond s dramatic style and form from 1984 is that Innocence radically deconstructs and interrogates the ontological phenomena of humanity. Red Black and Ignorant represented possibly the last of Bond s midcareer solution plays in its use of an episodic, parabolic form. The... 

I would like to think a former colleague and friend from the University of Portsmouth, John Stanton, for his invaluable contribution to my production of At the Inland Sea. I would also like to acknowledge the talent and commitment of the student casts of Red Black and Ignorant (Bath Spa University, 2004), At the Inland Sea (University of... 

A considerable amount of perceptual research over the past 30 years has shown that the various primary hues (colors) are not equally preferred by people, and that relatively stable preference orders for colors characteristically develop. In the United States research has tended to indicate that when black and white are ignored, blues and greens tend to be the most preferred color, while yellows and reds are the least preferred. 

The preparation of a special chapter in this series on the constituents of pepper (6) led us to ignore pepper alkaloids. After publication of the chapter, we discovered that it dealt with the alkaloids of red pepper species (Capsicum, So-lanaceae), which are not pyrrolidines, and the purpose of this addendum is to provide a survey of the pyrrolidine alkaloids contained in black pepper species Piper, Piperaceae. 

If you look in the average laboratory supply catalog, you may see listings for amber (or natural rubber), white, black, green, red, and/or clear stoppers. Ignoring the stoppers with premade single or double holes, there is not much difference between the first three-colored stoppers. The green and red/clear do provide some special characteristics. 

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