{"id":1141678,"date":"2026-08-10T14:04:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T14:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1141678\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T14:04:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T14:04:13","slug":"amanda-knoxs-edinburgh-fringe-show-profoundly-respectful-to-meredith-kercher-audience-says-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1141678\/","title":{"rendered":"Amanda Knox\u2019s Edinburgh Fringe show \u2018profoundly respectful\u2019 to Meredith Kercher, audience says \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

A controversial show by Amanda Knox<\/a>, who was falsely imprisoned for the murder of Meredith Kercher, is \u201cprofoundly respectful\u201d, audience members have said despite claims it \u201ctrivialises\u201d violence against women.<\/p>\n

Knox was convicted and later cleared over the killing of her friend Kercher in Italy in 2007.<\/p>\n

Convicted in 2009 for the murder and sexual assault of the British foreign exchange student, along with her then-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, Knox was eventually cleared in 2015.<\/p>\n

Knox performed the show, named Cartwheel, at Edinburgh Festival Fringe<\/a> on Friday night. The title refers to a story that claimed she did cartwheels in the police station after her friend\u2019s death.<\/p>\n

It has sparked controversy, with more than 6,000 people signing a petition calling for it to be cancelled.<\/p>\n

The sister of Kercher said it \u201cnormalises and trivialises violence against women\u201d.<\/p>\n

However, people leaving the show on Friday night said it was both \u201cpowerful\u201d and \u201crespectful\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think that [Knox] has every right to tell her story and to deal with her own grief and pain and what\u2019s been taken from her in her own way,\u201d a man, who didn\u2019t want to be named, leaving the show said.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe was profoundly respectful to the victim of the crime. She said that she never got the chance to express her own grief about what had happened, because as soon as the crime had happened, she was put in this position of having to defend herself. So I think that was important for her.\u201d<\/p>\n

The man said Knox was also \u201cgenuinely funny\u201d.<\/p>\n

Nigel, in his 60s from London, also found it to be respectful.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought it was really authentic \u2013 [Knox] came across as quite powerful and carried the room,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was a lot of clapping and standing at the end, and a lot of laughter all the way through.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nigel added: \u201cI thought it was an opportunity for her to tell her story in a very different environment.\u201d<\/p>\n

He also said that Knox refers to Kercher in the show as someone she had known as a friend.<\/p>\n

A man from Glasgow, who did not wish to be named, said the show is more about storytelling than it is about comedy.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was a wee bit hesitant about going along because I knew that there was controversy, and I understand Meredith Kercher\u2019s family being concerned \u2013 I\u2019ve got total sympathy for that \u2013 but having seen the show, there\u2019s nothing in that show that is, you know, like offensive or demeaning to Kercher,\u201d the man said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s trailed as a stand-up comedy, but it\u2019s not a stand-up comedy show. There\u2019s elements of humour in it, but it\u2019s more about her story.\u201d<\/p>\n

A woman, from Edinburgh, who also did not want to be named, said the show is emotional, and nearly moved her to tears.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe one very moving part was where she talks about her friend, her flatmate, Meredith, and that almost brought tears to my eyes,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a very small part of the show, but it was basically the guilt that she actually feels about being here.\u201d<\/p>\n

[\u00a0Amanda Knox: \u2018If I had not gone through this, I would not be the person I am today\u2019Opens in new window<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n

Overall, the woman said the show was more about being a mother.<\/p>\n

In a statement posted on Instagram, Knox said: \u201cCartwheel is a show about motherhood, raising a daughter in a world that is unfair and dangerous for women, and what it costs to be the kind of mother who tells her the truth about that.<\/p>\n

\u201cNeither the author of this petition nor anyone who signed it has seen Cartwheel.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe petition contains many false assumptions and completely mischaracterises the show.<\/p>\n

\u201cCartwheel honours Meredith Kercher\u2019s memory and calls out the violence that was done to her and to me.<\/p>\n

\u201cA petition to cancel a show no one has seen on the grounds of false accusations intended to shame and vilify a wronged woman into silence is not an argument against Cartwheel.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a fairly precise description of what Cartwheel is about and why it deserves to exist.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd the Edinburgh Fringe is the perfect place for a show like this.\u201d \u2013 PA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A controversial show by Amanda Knox, who was falsely imprisoned for the murder of Meredith Kercher, is \u201cprofoundly…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1141679,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8816],"tags":[261729,748,1102,31356,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":["post-1141678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-edinburgh","tag-amanda-knox","tag-britain","tag-edinburgh","tag-edinburgh-festival-fringe","tag-great-britain","tag-scotland","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/117071594581086670","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1141678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1141679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1141678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1141678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1141678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}