Dragon Ladies Don’t Weep: Brilliance Is Margaret Leng Tan
about 51 months ago (03/02/2020)
Dragon Ladies Don’t Weep: Brilliance Is Margaret Leng Tan | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Pia Johnson March 2, 2020 The following review is made possible through a Critical Residency programme supported by By Carolyn Oei (638 words, 5-minute read) Note: This review may contain some minor spoilers for Dragon Ladies Don’t Weep by Margaret Leng Tan. ONE: “Music; this is where the counting belongs.” In Dragon Ladies Don’t Weep, Margaret Leng Tan – the queen of the toy piano – comes clean about her obsessive-compulsive disorder, one of the classic manifestations of which is compulsive counting. The show is an evocative chronicle of the people, situations and influences that have shaped Tan’s life and music.