The House of Bernarda Alba

The door shuts. The bolt turns. Bernarda has decreed eight years of mourning and in this house no light enters and no one leaves. But someone in this room has no intention of obeying.

Your class is locked inside the Alba household. The walls are thick, the windows barred and Bernarda sees everything. Or so she believes. Because beneath the surface of silence and obedience, the five sisters are hiding secrets that could destroy the entire family. Your job is to find them — or hide them, depending on which character you're given.

There's a door that shouldn't be open. A green dress nobody should have seen. A letter that should never have been written. In this house, truth is more dangerous than any lock.

Federico Garcia Lorca finished The House of Bernarda Alba in June 1936, two months before he was murdered. He never saw it performed. It is a play about silence — about what happens when an entire family drowns behind closed doors.

Bernarda Alba is one of the most powerful figures in Spanish theatre: a mother who turns grief into prison and honour into tyranny. But the play isn't only about her cruelty. It's about desire, freedom, and the terrible cost of repressing them. Our escape room brings that tension into a real physical space. The walls close in. Time runs out. And the question isn't whether someone will rebel, but when.