What do you get when you cross drag queens, queer history, and lots of alcohol?
No, not a drama-filled post-Rusical episode of Untucked. In Portland, you get Drunk Herstory.
Drunk Herstory is the brainchild of Shandi Evans, who created the event with fellow drag queen Average Lavigne just before COVID hit. Since making their post-pandemic return, the show’s cult following has boomed, catapulting them from relatively humble beginnings at the Funhouse Lounge to the comparatively glamorous stage of Alberta Rose Theatre.
The premise is simple (and, for fans of Derek Waters’ Comedy Central show Drunk History, familiar): First, get some storytellers really, really drunk and/or stoned, and record them explaining an important moment in history. Then put performers on stage to act it out in sketch comedy form and lip-sync along to the slurred, less-than-expert tellings. Hilarity and chaos ensues.
