her life revolved around her contacts in cambridge. one aspect was her work for the theatre, designing costumes, scenery and programmes. her first experience was in 1908, when she designed costumes for "milton's" "comus" at the new theatre, cambridge. her brother-in-law geoffrey keynes asked her to provide scenery and costumes for a proposed ballet drawn from "illustrations of the book of job" to commemorate the centennial of blake's death; her second cousin, ralph vaughan williams, wrote the music to the work which became known as "job, a masque for dancing", the premiere of which took place in cambridge in 1931. the miniature stage set that she built as a model still exists, housed at the fitzwilliam museum in cambridge. she went on to design costumes, scenery and programmes for some ten productions, mostly for the cambridge university musical society. raverat met one of her close friends elisabeth vellacott, in the society's production of handel's oratorio "jephta".