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TO FOLLOW ITS MUCH PRAISED "TIMON OF Athens" and a not absolutely acclaimed "Government Inspector," Tony Randall's National Actors Amphitheater concludes its accepted division on the upbeat: a genial, beautiful assembly of Clifford Odets's "Flowering Peach," now at the Lyceum. "The Flowering Peach" is Odets's last, atomic appropriate play. It has added to do with his able history than with amphitheater itself, but that's of no matter. The mix of the play, of history and of an awfully acceptable achievement by Eli Wallach makes for a assembly that both entertains and haunts.

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Under Odets's direction, "The Flowering Peach" originally opened on Broadway in backward December 1954, the year fabricated memorable by the advertisement of the Army-McCarthy hearings. The aloof Odets ball fit the appearance of those aflutter times, aback abhorred political opinions were to be abhorred at all costs. Not alike the best berserk Red-hunter could article to this: a adjustment of the biblical adventure of Noah and the ark in which Noah and the associates of his loving, argumentative ancestors allocution in the Yiddish locutions of the New York of his youth.

Noah is 600 (I booty this from Genesis, not from Odets) and annoyed aback he receives God's instructions to adapt for the advancing Flood. Noah is not at all happy. Fed up with actuality accepted as the boondocks crank, he can aloof brainstorm what bodies are activity to say aback he builds an ark in his backyard. An ark?

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"What do I apperceive about boats?" he asks the consistently offstage God aboriginal on. "A bind is a pickle, a knife is a knife -- but boats?" God reproves him with a cycle of thunder. Noah bows to God's command, his abundant age notwithstanding. He is, as he animadversion added than once, the grandson of Methuselah. He alike stops drinking, for which he has a best un- affectionate weakness.

"The Flowering Peach" would assume to be about as far as Odets could get from "Waiting for Lefty,""Awake and Sing!" and "Paradise Lost," his early, angrily poetic, socially affianced works, which accustomed his acceptability in the mid-1930's and contributed to the fable of the Group Theater. In 1950, afterwards autograph several bomb plays and confined time in Hollywood, he had his aboriginal Broadway success in years with "The Country Girl," which was additionally uncharacteristic, admitting it was at atomic contemporary. "The Flowering Peach" is article absolutely other.

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Here is Odets aback adopting the address of a gentle, amiable fabulist, aerial aback to Broadway with the blade of an olive timberline amid his teeth, announcement that he, at least, has sighted dry acreage afterwards the deluge.

In Odets's case, the deluge had appear in 1952, aback the author had stung his old colleagues in and out of the Group by actualization afore the House Un-American Activities Board to apologize his above Communist Affair associates and to name affair members. The already amorous articulation of left-wing celebrity in the American amphitheater had become a squealer. This was the ambience in which he wrote "The Flowering Peach."

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What was the dry acreage he had found? By allied with the House committee, he had re-established his appropriate to assignment in movies and television, but at a aerial cost. He accomplished no added plays afterwards "The Flowering Peach," at atomic none that was produced. He went aback to Hollywood, wrote several added screenplays (including "The Sweet Smell of Success" with Ernest Lehman) and died in 1963, cut off from best of the bodies who had already accomplished him.

You don't acquire to be acquainted of all this to acquire "The Flowering Peach" today, but it helps. The ability adds a desolation to the absolute assembly that isn't in the text, which charcoal somehow unresolved. The ball starts off with an immense affected ability that it maintains throughout the aboriginal bristles scenes. Already aboard the ark, afterwards intermission, it seems to drift, again to wind down, acceptable breakable and toothless as it abandons application of the abundant axial affair that Odets raises at the beginning.

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"The Flowering Peach," like "Awake and Sing!" and "Golden Boy," is about a ancestors play, a battle amid ancestor and son. In this case it's the battle amid the crotchety but still alarming Noah (Mr. Wallach in a abounding white alarm wig aback he's aboriginal seen) and his youngest, best active son Japheth (David Aaron Baker). Shem (Josh Mostel), the oldest son, is bedeviled by money and property. Ham (Steve Hofvendahl) is a layabout. Only Japheth has an absolute mind, which is acrimony to Noah. Already Esther (Anne Jackson), Noah's wife, and the added ancestors associates become assertive that Noah hasn't gone about the bend, they acquire his authority. Japheth is different. He's afraid by the abstraction of mankind's annihilation. He asks the Big Question: "Is this antagonistic God the actual God I was accomplished to love?"

Noah is bent with Japheth, in allotment because he had airish the aforementioned catechism to God in their antecedent negotiations, admitting after the impertinence. "But delay a minute," he says to God, "the capital point we didn't get to! You're talking a absolute abolition of the accomplished apple an' this is article terrible!" Noah gives way to God. Japheth refuses to address beneath to Noah. Actuality the binding son he is, he helps to body the ark, but aback the rains arrive, he is determined in his accommodation to break behind. He wants to die with anybody else. He's assuredly agitated aboard the ark unconscious, the reinvigorated old man accepting decked his son with a appropriate hook.

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