It had been many years since actress Emma Suárez had a theatrical project in hand, and even more so since she had set foot in the Goya Theatre. "The last time was with Get off at the Moor, in the 80s. I was a teenager, now I'm a lady," the actress recalls. Although cinema plays an important role in her professional career with films such as The red scab (1993), The gardener's gos(1996), The next skin (2016) andJuliet(2016), Suárez was eager to return to the theater. Now he does so with the stage adaptation ofThe back room, the novel by Carmen Martín Gaite (1925-2000), coinciding with the centenary of the Spanish writer's birth. "The text gave me goosebumps, it moved me, it provoked me, I felt something very powerful, fear and vertigo at the same time," explains Suárez. The show premiered in February at the Teatro de La Abadía in Madrid and will be at the Teatro Goya until July 27, as part of the Grec Festival.