The Jove Teatre Regina is definitively lowering its curtain. The venue, dedicated to children's and youth theater for almost four decades, is forced to close due to the owner's decision to sell the building, located on Sèneca street, in Barcelona's Gràcia neighborhood. The company La Trepa, founder of the initiative and responsible for managing the theater since 1988, is left without a space to carry out its family theater project, which involved a continuous program, school performances, and theater workshops. "We are not closing due to financial failure or lack of audience. Things were going well for us, but the building is being sold and they are kicking us out," laments the theater's director, Mariona Campos.

For a decade they have been working non-stop. They have premiered nine shows of small, medium and large format, street and indoor, with the audience in the Italian style, standing, sitting in hammocks. "It has been a very prolific ten years. When we were five years old, it seemed like we were 84. Physically and mentally, we didn't feel emergent," explains Lluki Portas. She is one-third of the soul of Hermanas Picohueso, a company born in the Balearic Islands and also formed by Gal·la Peire and Aina Juanet. Artists and producers, they have made a niche for themselves in the theatre sector thanks, above all, to an innovative capacity, to incessantly seek new languages and to present scenic proposals, the result of deep research. Now they bring AHNI (Unidentified Human Actions) to the Mostra d'Igualada, their first production for a family audience but also for adults. The play will be shown on April 18th in various performances.

At the end of a sweltering May in 2025, a group of us were invited to one of the open rehearsals of the new show for all audiences at the Lleida-based company La Baldufa's venue. "It's a production that revolves around the Spanish Civil War," they told us. A soaring thermometer advised us to come prepared with fans. We were right! However, some of us thought we knew what to expect. Nothing could have been further from the truth!