Compliance Week doesn’t run theatre reviews. But while we’re here, we suggest readers might want to take in a performance of “Enron, The Play,” now playing a star turn in London’s West End to overflow audiences.

We both recently attended, and were struck by how much this fictionalized British retelling of a 10-year-old American scandal illuminates today’s governance issues. Consider two current hot-button items: The new requirements for more extensive disclosure of director nominee qualifications and how to respond to the recent Supreme Court ruling allowing virtually unlimited direct corporate political spending.

The play opens with three blind mice wandering through ...