Justin, Nick and the rest of the Ickle Pickle team express their deepest sadness over the death of Jan Wawrzynczak on the 25th of July due to complications from a motorbike accident.

He was a big part of amateur theatre in Canberra, through his role as Arts & Cultural Development Officer with the Belconnen Community Service.

He was also played a large role in the formation of a small theatre company that would later become; Ickle Pickle Productions.

He will be missed.

We send our wishes to Jan's family, friends and co-workers.

2007 TELSTRA COUNTRYWIDE® 2007 CAT Awards

Tonight at the 2007 CAT Awards, Ickle Pickle Productions picked up their first award:

 Magic Moment Of Theatre - Wizard of Oz
Joymont Tiger Lily as Toto.

Congratulations to all the other winners and nominees. 

Theatre should be judged in its context. Ickle Pickle is essentially a community theatre. Robin Hood  is as much about teaching and giving stage experience to young performers, in this case from the age of nine, as it is about entertaining young and old in the audience.

Dorothy lived in the midst of the great Kansas prairies, with Uncle Henry, who was a farmer, and Aunt Em who was the farmer's wife. Dorothy had a little black dog with long silk hair and small black eyes that twinkled merrily on either side of his funny, wee nose.

A cyclone was coming, but before Dorothy and Toto could run into the cellar - a strange thing happened. The house whirled around two or three times and rose slowly through the air - higher and higher utnil it landed with a shock. The jar made Dorothy catch her breath and wonder what had happened. The house was not moving. Dorothy sprang up and with Toto at her heels she ran and opened the door.