 In Sweden, there was never any opposition to women performing onstage, and the first actresses, Beata Sabina Straas, "Miss Wijkman" and "Miss Lund" was engaged for the inauguration performance the same year.Straas, Wijkman and Lund where all retired by 1739, and there was a need to employ more permanent actresses, and in 1741, the theater lists its actresses as Anna Maria Sualing, Anna Lindbohm, Susanna Catharina Steenberg and Elisabeth Lillström.Elisabeth Lillström was one of the stars of the actors of the theater, which was the first and the only Swedish language theater at the time, and often played the lead female role in the productions.