Luba, Simply Luba

Luba Goy, an original member of CanadaÕs popular comedy troupe, Royal Canadian Air Farce, is one of this countryÕs most beloved comedic actors. In Luba, Simply Luba, we are invited into her colourful and astonishing life. From her Ukrainian childhood to high honours at Rideau Hall, Luba GoyÕs journey has been filled with both comedy and tragedy. This one-woman show features glimpses of Luba at various ages along with forty-plus other charactersÑincluding her family and friends, Canadian prime ministers and other famous personalities, and even a few animals.

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Diane Flacks

Diane Flacks is a writer/performer whose solo shows, Myth Me, By a Thread, Random Acts, and Bear With Me (based on her book, published by McClelland & Stewart), have been critically acclaimed, published, and toured within North America. She has twice performed excerpts from Bear With Me at the CBC Winnipeg Comedy Fest. Most recently, Diane’s play Waiting Room premiered at Tarragon Theatre, where she also wrote and performed in By a Thread, SIBS (with Richard Greenblatt), Care, Gravity Calling, and Theory of Relatives. Diane’s written for TV, including Global/NBC’s Working the Engels, Baroness Von Sketch Show, Young Drunk Punk, PR, The Broad Side, a film version of her play SIBS, and Kids in the Hall. Diane can be heard on your radio as CBC Radio’s national parenting columnist and a contributor to DNTO and Tapestry. She’s written for the Toronto Star, The Globe and Mail, and Today’s Parent magazine. She most recently played the lead in the in

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Ã’(An) honest and revealing show.Ó – NOW Magazine
“This is a jewel of a show you simply canÕt afford to miss.Ó – Calgary Sun

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Luba Goy, an original member of CanadaÕs popular comedy troupe, Royal Canadian Air Farce, is one of this countryÕs most beloved comedic actors. In Luba, Simply Luba, we are invited into her colourful and astonishing life. From her Ukrainian childhood to high honours at Rideau Hall, Luba GoyÕs journey has been filled with both comedy and tragedy. This one-woman show features glimpses of Luba at various ages along with forty-plus other charactersÑincluding her family and friends, Canadian prime ministers and other famous personalities, and even a few animals.

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Dimensions:

60 Pages
8.5in * 5.5in * 0.25in
0.03lb

Published:

November 20, 2013

Country of Publication:

CA

ISBN:

9781897289976

Book Subjects:

DRAMA / Canadian

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Language:

eng

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