Three of the nine roles call for male actors to play exaggerated drag queens, and since 1976 three of the roles are also cast with three real women,[REF] one of whom plays a drag king.
Costumes especially designed and created in 1976 by Maria Knutsson of Sweden's popular Gul&Blå boutiques[REF] have continued to be used since then, and the same body language that the director found in the young Cubans already in 1972 has also been preserved to a large extent.