MOSCOW, April 26 The Satire Theater will present on May 9 the performance-concert “The Blue Handkerchief” dedicated to Victory Day, as well as to the theater during the Great Patriotic War, the theater press service reported.
The play “The Blue Handkerchief” is based on Grigory Gorin’s play “Farewell, entertainer!” directed by Andrei Mironov, which turns 40 this year. 
“”During the war years, Soviet artists gave almost one and a half million concerts for the soldiers of the Red Army on the front line. All theaters became one big family – 42 thousand artists. Among this huge “invisible” army were the artists of the Satire Theater. Some were Anatoly Papanov and Evgeniy Vestnik – fought at the front with weapons in their hands. Others, as part of the concert brigade No. 13, traveled around the fronts with concerts,” the message says.
The performance-concert “The Blue Handkerchief” is a performance-memory, a performance-research. He documents the people of the theater and how art helps to defeat death. The play interweaves three lines: those who were born and lived during the war, those who were born after and talk about older colleagues with whom they were lucky enough to work, and very young artists, those who look at the tragic events of the past from the present.
Together with memoirs and memories, songs by Ruslanova, Shulzhenko, Utesov, Bernes, with whom the artists performed on the front line, will be performed.
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