"Can we pass sentence on one who is just like ourselves? Even if he's killed, can we now kill him? Hyenas calls the question at the heart of capital punishment, and if it doesn't explicitly take a side, it reminds us how fundamental and elemental the question must be.

So Simeon leaves us with a dilemma stuck in our craws as we exit the theatre. Thanks to Verdier and the commendable Pettrow, we also leave with an indelible portrait of a singular young man etched in our brains. Pettrow's work here is commanding and empathetic and original: he inhabits Benoit and brings him to such vivid life that he's impossible to look away from or forget.(...)

Hyenas is exquisite theatre, the kind that you lean into almost against your will, and that won't release its grip on you until it's done. Its creators have done a splendid job in making a one-person play very much into a dialogue, one that compels and engages long after the lights have gone down. "

Martin Denton nytheatre.com review 27 mai 2006