Amanda Knox 'Cartwheel' at Edinburgh Fringe 2026

**'Cartwheel'** is Amanda Knox's debut one-woman stand-up comedy show, premiering at the **Edinburgh Fringe Festival** on **August 7, 2026**, running through August 17 at the **Gilded Balloon Teviot, Wine Bar**. The show uses dark humor to explore identity, Knox's life before, during and after her wrongful imprisonment in Italy, and what it means to be publicly defined by something you didn't do. Knox, approaching 40 and a mother, also addresses how she will eventually explain her story to her daughter. Sources: Broadway World, Amanda Knox Substack.

**No.** Amanda Knox was fully and definitively **acquitted** of the murder of Meredith Kercher. Knox and her then-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito were convicted in 2009 in a high-profile Italian trial, but both were **acquitted in 2011** on appeal, reconvicted in 2013, and then **definitively acquitted** by Italy's Court of Cassation in **2015**. The acquittals are final. The only person whose conviction stands is **Rudy Guede**, an Ivory Coast-born man who was convicted of the murder in 2008 in a separate fast-track trial and was released in 2021 after serving 13 years. Sources: Court of Cassation (2015 judgment), BBC, Reuters.

The controversy centres on the reaction of the **Kercher family**, whose daughter Meredith Kercher was murdered in Perugia, Italy, in 2007. A lawyer for the Kercher family publicly described Knox's show as **'offensive and deplorable'** and an insult to Meredith's memory. Knox responded that she does not joke about Meredith Kercher's death, only about how she herself was 'vilified' by media and public opinion during and after the trial. The tension is rooted in the deep pain the Kercher family has expressed about the continued public attention Knox receives. Sources: The Scotsman, La Voce di New York.

Amanda Knox's show **'Cartwheel'** runs from **August 7 to August 17, 2026**, at the **Gilded Balloon Teviot, Wine Bar** during the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. The Edinburgh Fringe typically runs through the month of August. Sources: Broadway World, Gilded Balloon.

In **November 2007**, British student **Meredith Kercher** (21) was found murdered in her apartment in **Perugia, Italy**, where she was studying abroad. Her American roommate **Amanda Knox** (then 20) and Knox's Italian boyfriend **Raffaele Sollecito** were accused of the murder. Both were convicted in 2009, acquitted in 2011, reconvicted in 2013, then **definitively acquitted in 2015** by Italy's highest court. The case attracted enormous international media attention and sparked years of debate about wrongful convictions and media bias. The only conviction that stands is that of **Rudy Guede**, convicted in 2008 in a separate trial; he was released in 2021. Sources: Court of Cassation, BBC, Reuters.

Amanda Knox was **definitively acquitted** of the murder of Meredith Kercher in **March 2015** by Italy's Court of Cassation (the supreme court), ending a legal saga that spanned eight years. The court found there was insufficient evidence to support a conviction. Raffaele Sollecito was also definitively acquitted at the same time. Their 2009 conviction and 2013 reconviction had both been overturned on appeal. The acquittals are final and cannot be appealed further. Sources: Italian Court of Cassation, BBC, Reuters.

Amanda Knox, now approaching 40 and a mother (she has a daughter with her current partner, journalist Christopher Robinson), has become a podcaster, author, and advocate for criminal justice reform, wrongful conviction awareness, and prison reform. She hosts a true-crime podcast, has written a memoir ('Waiting to Be Heard', 2013), and is an editor at the West Seattle Herald. The Edinburgh Fringe show 'Cartwheel' marks her debut as a stand-up comedian. Sources: Amanda Knox Substack, Broadway World.

**Rudy Guede** is an Ivory Coast-born man who was convicted of the murder of Meredith Kercher in **2008** in a separate fast-track Italian trial, and whose conviction stands as the only confirmed conviction for the murder. He was sentenced to 30 years in prison, later reduced to 16 years on appeal. He was **released from prison in 2021** after serving approximately 13 years. Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito, convicted and later definitively acquitted, always maintained their innocence. Sources: BBC, Reuters.