Staging Roberto Bonati's The Blanket of the Dark : a twenty-first century vision of 'The Scottish Play'

Abstract

The Department of Music at Rhodes University inaugurated the International Spring Music Festival in 2009. One of the central educational goals of this festival is to provide a platform for student performers to interact with local and international music professionals and to exchange knowledge about performance practice through making music together. The shortage of informal venues for public performance and Grahamstown's relative physical isolation from major centres are factors that tend to limit possibilities for students to perform in front of an audience, and the festival provided a number of opportunities for this.