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It's hardly a secret that these are tricky times for the arts, entertainment and comedy - anything, in other words, that relies on an audience. But while big festivals struggle and blockbusters look nervous, for one group all this is business as usual. For Fringe shows and performers, ducking, diving and improvising is what they do anyway. Welcome to the club, they say! So maybe cabaret and burlesque performer Jojo Bellini can offer coping strategies for her more traditional colleagues. She's got - not one but two - intriguing one-person shows coming up at the New Zealand Fringe Festival in Wellington. She talks to Lynn Freeman about Agents Provocateurs - a tribute to female spies - and A Nifty History of Evil. Jojo's picks include Maxwell Apse, Sameena Zehra, Neil Thornton and Justine Smith.
