Theatre

The play is set in the bar of the Chelsea Hotel in New York, in late 1963, and Beatrice Behan has come over from her home in Dublin to have it out with Brendan, concerning rumours that he is having an affair with Valerie Danby-Smith and is about to divorce her. There is also a rumour that Valerie is having a child by him.

Although the play is historically correct, inasmuch as the incidents depicted did actually take place, they did not necessarily take place in the order described.