Terror Is the Order of the Day

Ben Heineman's long and extraordinary career has found him reporting for the Chicago Sun-Times, earning degrees from Harvard and Oxford and Yale, clerking at the Supreme Court, working in the Carter Administration, serving as general counsel at General Electric, writing four books and now presiding as a senior fellow at Harvard's Law School and Kennedy School of Government. He has also—why not?—written an ensemble tragedy about the French Revolution and the circular guillotine squad that followed. Tea Alagić (The Brothers Size) directs a large cast in a bargain-priced production that is running for just eight performances at the Flea.