US is a 1966 experimental theatre play created for the Royal Shakespeare Company by a group that included Denis Cannan (writer), Michael Kustow (documentary), Sally Jacobs (design), Richard Peaslee (music), Adrian Mitchell (lyrics), Geoffrey Reeves (music director), Albert Hunt (associate director), Michael Stott (associate director) and director Peter Brook.
The first half of the performance consists of "comic-strip…anti-Americanism", but after the interval the work considers aspects of the conflict as if taking place in London: "I want it to come here…" announces one character.
This is achieved by having a player contemplate burning himself to death, in the manner of Buddhist monks in Saigon, on the streets of London.
[2] The cast included Glenda Jackson, Michael Williams, Clifford Rose and Patrick O'Connell.
Tell Me Lies, a British film based on US and directed and produced by Brook, was released in 1968.