The theatre opened in February 1971 at the Bowen Hills site under the direction of Joan Whalley with two productions, A Flea in Her Ear by Georges Feydeau and The Rose and the Ring by William Makepeace Thackeray.
Flea | Flea (musician) | Spanish Flea | War of Jenkins' Ear | The Flea Theater | The Broken Ear | Crowded in the Ear | Cloud ear fungus | A Flea in Her Ear | ''Zabalius aridus''. Note external ear slits on anterior Arthropod leg | War of Jenkin's Ear | Vestibule of the ear | The Flea 88.2 | spotted cat's ear | ''Self-portrait with bandaged ear'', 1889, Vincent van Gogh | Oriental rat flea | Michael "Flea" Balzary | Learning music by ear | '''I'''nternational '''Y'''ear of '''A'''stronomy | Inner Ear Studios | Golden ear | Flea (musician) | flea | Dog flea | Chigoe flea | Cat flea |
On stage she made important appearances in The Elephant Man (play), A Taste of Honey, La malasangre by Griselda Gambaro, A Flea in Her Ear by Georges Feydeau and Lost in Yonkers both directed by China Zorrilla whom she shared the stage in Eva and Victoria, a successful theater play depicting a fictitious meeting between the political leader Eva Perón (Silveyra) and the aristocratic intellectual and writer Victoria Ocampo (Zorrilla).