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...Flowering Peach (by Clifford Odets) tells, very much in its own way, the story of Noah. His scene a kind of historical no man's land-so long as there is any land-Odets chronicles a family whose habits and dress seem less Biblical than bohemian and who, with their slangy ways, seem more modern than ancient...
Odets has given the play no basic style: neither the vivid folkishness that The Green Pastures brought to the Bible nor the Main Street flavor The Golden Apple gave to Homer. The Flowering Peach is sometimes gently philosophic, sometimes folkish. sometimes straight domestic comedy, and at its broadest, borscht-belt farce. What it displays is a meandering fancy rather than a fused vision...
...product, a fruity concoction of trade secrets (rumored to be apricot brandy and bourbon), is a favorite of elderly ladies, is sometimes served with cracked ice and a canned peach in a solid-stemmed goblet...
This corrupt version of a well known jingle applies particularly well to Clifford Odets' new play, The Flowering Peach. Whenever Odets is naughty or cute, whether to shock or titillate the audience, he wins laughs or gasps of admiration. But when he sticks to his calling as that rare theatrical type--a thoughtful craftsman--he achieves mature drama...
...gesture. Strangely, the play's main strength, a warm and jovial view of Noah's relationship with God, is too often stretched to the point of flippancy and slightly cheapens Skulnik's part, as well as the play as a whole. But this defect just puts The Flowering Peach a degree below superlative, it doesn't destroy its advanced merit. Berta Gerson, as Noah's wife, almost matches Skulnik's expertness, and Mario Alcalde should grow into a top-flight actor. Janice Rule is awfuly pretty, if slightly monotonous in her interpretation, and both Martin Ritt and Leon Janney enter...