Amanda Knox Premieres 'Cartwheel' at Edinburgh Fringe
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- Amanda Knox debuted her standup show 'Cartwheel' at the Gilded Balloon Teviot at the Edinburgh Fringe, running until 17 August.
- The 39-year-old reframes her wrongful imprisonment story through the lens of new motherhood, performing while folding children's clothes and dialoguing with her four-year-old daughter's voice.
- Knox plans to tell her kids about her ordeal as a Dr Seuss-style tale, joking 'Knox the fox in a box with locks.'
- Her baby's birth was met with hateful online abuse, which she says has sharpened her fury about the treatment of her and her own mother.
- Knox used the show to declare a determination to raise her daughter without being silenced — 'to be the exact girl I was punished for being.'
- The reviewer classified 'Cartwheel' as memoir rather than comedy but found its defiance stirring and respectful to the memory of Knox's murdered roommate.
Why it matters: Labeling the show 'comedy' 'risks looking insensitive and inaccurately describes the show,' the reviewer warns, but argues Knox 'would be damned whatever she did' — making this Edinburgh debut less a routine comedy slot than a high-stakes attempt to reclaim her own narrative on a major international stage.
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