Luba, Simply Luba

By Diane Flacks, Luba Goy and Andrey Tarasiuk

Luba Goy, an original member of Canada's popular comedy troupe, Royal Canadian Air Farce, is one of this country's 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 Goy's 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 characters--including her family and friends, Canadian prime ministers and other famous personalities, and even a few animals.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Scirocco Drama
• Release date: Oct 5, 2022
• ISBN: 9781990737480

Diane Flacks

Diane Flacks is a writer/actor. Her plays include Bear With Me; Random Acts; Myth Me; Waiting Room; By a Thread; Gravity Calling; Luba, Simply, Luba and Theory of Relatives, as well as SIBS and Care with Richard Greenblatt. Diane also writes extensively for TV (among others, Working the Engels, Workin’ Moms, Baroness von Sketch Show, Qanurli and Kids in the Hall). She has been the national parenting columnist for CBC Radio, and a contributor to DNTO and Tapestry. She was a feature columnist for the Toronto Star and the Globe and Mail. Diane has performed comedy everywhere from New York’s Town Hall to local bars to the Winnipeg Comedy Festival. Her four solo shows have toured nationally and internationally. She is currently developing a one-​person play called Guilt and a play with the Stratford Festival called Blessed. She has numerous acting credits over twenty-​five years in the business, and in 2019 she played Nathan in Nathan the Wise at Stratford.

Book preview

Lights and music up:

Ukrainian Church Mass in progress.

LUBA, wearing a stylish silk jacket, pants, little white church gloves, a 1950s style church hat with feathers, holding a little purse, enters the house through the audience.

She’s a nine-year old girl, late for church, interacting with the audience as she works her way to the stage.

There is a bench in the centre of the stage, underneath a little mini chandelier with a little red light.

Onstage is a musician/singer (BANDURIST/BASS.). She reaches the stage.

LUBA then moves to centre stage, kneels and crosses herself.

BANDURIST/BASS: ( Church Mass in progress with specific section sung in Ukrainian.) … Virhiu