Brian Warfield, leader and principal songwriter of The Wolfe Tones, has announced a brand-new musical, Celtic Exodus, written and created by Warfield himself, to run at the unique space of The Complex in January 2025.
Brian’s career has spanned an incredible 60 years of sell-out arena tours in the USA, UK and at home in Ireland. After the band's farewell tour wraps in late 2024, Celtic Exodus is Brian's invitation to bring three generations of Wolf Tones fans to the theatre, where they can experience his finely honed storytelling skills in a new musical format, with much of the musical content adapted from the Wolfe Tones wildly popular back catalogue, including ‘A Great Hunger’, ‘Misty Foggy Dew', ‘Thank God For America’ and ‘Ireland My Ireland’
Celtic Exodus tells the story of star-crossed lovers trapped by a family feud in the village of Kilturk in Ireland in the 1840s.
As famine descends, the families of young Sean McDonagh and Siobhan Buckley struggle with survival in the face of crop failure, starvation, and relentless oppression by landlords and British Government agents.
The young lovers must hide their forbidden passion, yet find a way somehow to unite their clans in defiance of challenging times.
Ultimately, the young lovers will be forced to join the hordes of Irish people who leave their beloved homeland in the first great wave of the Celtic Exodus.
Love songs, poetry, rousing ballads and epic choreography bring the story to life in a celebration of who we are, where we came from, and how in exile we shared our unique Irish culture with the rest of the world.
Don't miss this incredible original musical, running for just four nights at The Complex. Tickets are available now.
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