The Wire

Cultures, timelines and alternate realities clash in a work in production for the Brisbane Festival.

Kimie Tsukakoshi stars as Hanako in the self-titled play, as a character out of a traditional Japanese Noh play who tries to escape the warring influences of the past to create her own future.

Ms Tsukakoshi also plays Heidi Thomson on the SBS TV series Family Law.

The show is among a suite of popular new shows with a mostly non-Anglo Celtic cast, but according to a recent study by Screen Australia, Australian TV is still largely unrepresentative of our diverse population.