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AWOL: 2 Old men Escape From A Care Home & Go To A Metal Festival comes to the Orlando Fringe Festival

AWOL is a feel-good adventure caper about discovering you still have plenty to offer.
It's a celebraton of taking risks and the joy of unexpected surprises.

AWOL: 2 Old men Escape From A Care Home & Go To A Metal Festival comes to the Orlando Fringe Festival

From the creative teams behind the Orlando Critics' Choice Award winners Forget Me Not, How I Met My Mother and Til Death, come the hilarious AWOL: 2 Old men Escape From A Care Home & Go To A Metal Festival.


AWOL: 2 Old men Escape From A Care Home & Go To A Metal Festival will take to the stage at Orlando Family Stage, Silver Venue - 1001 E Princeton St, Orlando, from May 15 - 25.


Cyril doesn’t like old people, which is a shame, because he is one. When he learns his estranged granddaughter, Lily, has her big break with her thrash metal band, Abscess, he and his friend Neville are determined to show up and support her. Neither of them will ever be the same again.⁣ ⁣


Tickets cost $15, and are available now.


18+, contains Adult Language, and Mature Themes.



FIVE STARS - Edmonton Journal⁣


"HILARIOUS" - Winnipeg Free Press


"SCREAMINGLY FUNNY" - UMFM


AWOL: 2 Old men Escape From A Care Home & Go To A Metal Festival comes to the Orlando Fringe Festival

Orlando Fringe Festival returns to Loch Haven Park, Downtown Orlando between May 14 - 27, 2024.  Orlando Fringe is a 14-day immersive cultural experience featuring over 1,000 ticketed performances spanning a wide array of genres, such as dance, spoken word, musicals, comedy and much more. 


Free festival highlights include the Outdoor Stage music festival, Visual Fringe art on display throughout festival grounds and Kids Fringe play and entertainment for the young and young-at-heart weekends May 18 - 19 and May 25 - 26.


Anchored in Loch Haven Park, the festival features venues at the Lowndes Shakespeare Center, Orlando Family Stage and the Orlando Museum of Art, plus Fringe ArtSpace in Downtown Orlando on historic Church Street.  BYOV’s (“Bring Your Own Venues”) this year include returning venues Renaissance Theatre Company, The Starlite Room @ Savoy and Stardust Lounge, new venue CityArts, along with various site-specific venues chosen by artists. 

 

This year’s festival marks the popular return of Outdoor Stage theme nights on a brand new stage provided by OPAV and the hit late-night show offerings part of Fringe After Dark that include Fringe The Afterparty, Flashlight Cabaret, The Afters and Musical Mondays.


For more information on Orlando Fringe 2024 and to purchase tickets, visit www.orlandofringe.org, and contact the Box Office: 407-648-0077.


33rd Annual Orlando International Fringe Theatre Festival

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