The opening night for the performance “Just a Simple Story”, the play written by Maria Lado took place in Saratov Academic Kiselev Youth Theatre in 2004. The performance was directed by the People’s Actor of the RF Grigory Tsinman, the production designer – the State RF Prize Laureate  Stanislav Shavlovsky.

Maria Lado is a young playwright from Kiev. The performances based on her play-paroemia “Just a Simple Story”, which she wrote at the beginning of this century are wide-spread among Russian theatres.

The genre of the performance is determined by performance’s creators as “a story”, just a story from every day life of our contemporaries. There is no single cool spectator within the audience during the performance “Just a Simple Story” in Saratov Academic Youth Theatre. It is not by chance. The relations between village “Romeo and Juliette” and their parents are lived out in a true to life human way… Can you imagine by whom? By a horse, a cow, a cock, a dog and a pig living in a barn domestic animals. The whole action is going though so to say their conscious, lives, biographies and tragedies…This conventional approach allows the audience to dip into the atmosphere of a joyful and sad paroemia, where fantasy and reality are interconnected into unified whole.

The performance “Just a Simple Story” based on the play by Maria Lado got a special diploma awarded by the jury of the Third International Theatre Forum “Golden Knight” in 2005 for “The Bright Actor’s Ensemble”.