The Shadow Whose Prey the Hunter Becomes is a play in a form of public speaking and conversations with AI and humans. This play is about how society treats disabled people with injustice and stereotypes and how every human being will be treated in the future with advanced technology. It discusses human rights, the power of words, and the social impact of automation.
What are the proper ways for “the normal people” to treat the disabled? In addition, how will we be treated in the future if artificial intelligence dominates the world? The play The Shadow Whose Prey the Hunter Becomes starts with the five figures setting up a town hall meeting in front of a black computer screen hanging on the backside of the state. Their stories of how people treat them unfairly because of their disability and think they are uneducated and stupid followed by the topic of how will people be treated when A.I. overtakes humans. A good reference in the play is this line, “like how we treat chicken or people with disability?” The injustice started when “normality” rules out the minorities because of any kind of difference. The ending of the play and its message to the audience is meaningful. Most people will go through struggles to be understood, stigmatized by others with low expectations sometimes in their lives. However, we need to speak for ourselves even if others highlight our limit, which is totally not true.
This play is truly wonderful and I had the chance to watch it myself. Before I always feel sorry for people with disabilities because society has told us that we need to be grateful for what we have right now because some people don’t even have them. After watching the play, I realize this is wrong. Disabled people don’t need our pity. They want respect and dignity like every other human being on this planet. Instead of thinking of the disability as a tragedy, some of them think it is a gift that makes them special. This play taught me about individual responsibility to keep our society way from injustice for any reasons, race, age, income, or disability.
