Beatrice, Brendan’s wife, has come over from 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. Valerie, who had been Ernest Hemingway’s p/a before he shot himself, has since been working with Brendan on the NY production of The Hostage. Beatrice is now pregnant with Brendan’s child, and has heard a rumour that Valerie is in the same situation. 

(aka Brendan's Women) toured London in 2007 with performances in The Space (Isle of Dogs), Pentameters (Hamstead), London Irish Centre (Camden) and The Canal Cafe (Little Venice).

The play also forms a trilogy of Brendan Behan plays written by Tom O'Brien which include On Raglan Road (about the poet Patrick Kavanagh) and Georgeous Gael (about the boxer Jack Doyle). 

A play about Brendan Behan and the women in his life set in the bar of the Chelsea Hotel in New York, in late 1963. Behan's Women