Strange days

RICHARD Strange has a curious knack for being in the right place at the right time. That could be fortuitously witnessing The Beatles’ rooftop concert as a truanting schoolboy in 1969 or, several decades later, landing a part in Tom Waits’ avant-garde opera having bumped into director Robert Wilson the day before auditions. It’s a talent that’s helped lubricate a diverse careerinto an audiobook. “I can’t make films or be a visual artist, but I am a fan of collaboration.”