Bibliodrama
playing with White Fire
The Midrash
Bibliodrama:
Socrates meets Stanislawski
A blend of scholarship and art,
philosophy and drama
Combining a close reading of biblical texts with searching, imaginative questions, Bibliodrama offers people of all ages and levels of knowledge an opportunity to experience of a method of creative study that, in the past twenty five years, has changed the way we read the Bible.
Peter Pitzele has his Ph.D from Harvard University. He was a literature teacher for a number of years and later became trained in improvisational drama. For seventeen years he was Director of Psychodrama Services at Four Winds Hospital, in Katonah, New York. Through his involvement with Jewish and Christian communities and seminaries, Peter developed Bibliodrama, a form of biblical investigation and play. He has shared his work as a scholar/artist at more than one hundred and fifty congregations in the United States, Europe, and Israel.
Peter has taught Bibliodrama to rabbis, scholars, educators, pastors, priests, lay-people, performers, and families. Called variously Pop-Up Torah, Open-Bible Play, Modern Midrash, and Experiential Bible, this method has appealed to people of all ages and to different faith traditions. It has aided community-building and healing, served inter-religious dialogue, deepened the relationship of individuals to the biblical traditions, and has, for thousands of people, opened new insights into ancient sources.
“I will never read the
Bible the same way again.”
Bibliodramatic Storytelling with Masks