Morna and her husband Neil Jones established Little Patch Theatre in an old farmhouse in High Street, Brighton and its theatrical mainstay was puppetry.
Highlights included Wilfred Gordon McDonald Partridge which had seasons at Expo 88 in Brisbane and the Malthouse in Melbourne, The Secret Garden which headlined the Canberra Festival and Gillian Rubinstein's Space Demons.
[citation needed] Dave Brown joined the company in 1992 and continued to foster the Adelaide Festival Centre relationship, with a co-production of Victor Kelleher's The Red King in 1993.
[citation needed] In 1994, Patch moved from its base in the Community Centre in Tarlton Street, Somerton Park, to become a part of the Pasadena High School campus.
[citation needed] Brown's work reflected his interest in exploring new conventions for the use of music in theatre with Respectable Shoes and the Beatlesque pop-opera Kookookachoo.
The Adelaide Festival Centre Trust and Come Out '99 presented Ken Evans' and Jonathan Taylor's Visible Darkness, a "collision of film noir, contemporary dance, puppetry and illusion".
[citation needed] Collaborating with leading artists, Dave Brown created works such as Emily Loves To Bounce, Me and My Shadow, and The Moon's A Balloon.
[2][3] Patch has performed at international children's festivals in Korea, Japan, Singapore, United States, New Zealand and Canada, and has been featured regularly at the Sydney Opera House and Victorian Arts Centre.
[citation needed] Geoff Cobham, former resident lighting designer of the State Theatre Company of South Australia (STCSA),[8] took on the role of artistic director of Patch in October 2018.