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Janet Ruth Heller’s play entitled Pledging will be performed at the Tritonysia Play Festival at Triton College in River Grove IL on May 5-7 and May 12-14, 2017

Janet Ruth Heller’s short play entitled Pledging will be performed at the Tritonysia Play Festival at Triton College on May 5-7 and May 12-14, 2017. Triton College is located at 2000 5th Ave., River Grove, Illinois 60171. The performances will be in the Cox Auditorium in the Fine Arts Building, J108, on Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. and on Sundays at 2 p.m. The festival director is Sommer Austin.

Pledging concerns two college freshmen in the 1960s who are longtime best friends.  Ellen, a Jewish student, gets accepted by sororities at Appleton College.  However, her roommate Brianna, who is African-American, gets rejected by the sororities.  Ellen needs to decide whether to pledge or not.  This drama is based on historical discrimination against people of color by many sororities and fraternities.

 

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Janet Ruth Heller

I am the past president of the Michigan College English Association. I have a Ph.D. in English Language and Literature from the University of Chicago. I have published four poetry books: Nature's Olympics (Wipf and Stock, 2021), Exodus (WordTech Communications, 2014), Folk Concert: Changing Times (Anaphora Literary Press, 2012) and Traffic Stop (Finishing Line Press, 2011). My scholarly book, Coleridge, Lamb, Hazlitt, and the Reader of Drama, was published in 1990 by the University of Missouri Press. My fiction picture book about bullying for children, How the Moon Regained Her Shape (Arbordale, 2006; 7th edn. 2022), has won four national awards. My play The Cell Phone won fourth place in a national contest and was performed twice at the Fenton Village Players One-Act Play Festival on June 24-25, 2011 in Fenton, Michigan. Triton College produced another play, Pledging, as part of its Tritonysia Play Festival in May 2017. Choeofpleirn Press published Pledging in Rushing Through the Dark (2022).