Amanda Knox Claims Show She Is Performing at Edinburgh Festival Honors Her Murdered Former Flatmate
Stephanie Kercher says a petition with more than 1,000 signatures backs her call to drop Amanda Knox’s comedy show.
- On Friday, Amanda Knox debuts her stand-up show 'Cartwheel' at the Edinburgh Fringe, facing immediate backlash as a petition calling for cancellation gathered more than 2,000 signatures in 48 hours.
- Stephanie Kercher, sister of murdered Meredith Kercher, condemned the performance, accusing Knox of exploiting the 2007 tragedy to 'debut a comedy show' and turning her family's pain into 'entertainment'.
- Petition organizer Sally Alington described the performance as a 'gross trivialisation' of the rape and murder of a young woman, urging the Gilded Balloon venue to 'adjust their moral compasses' and cancel.
- Defending the booking, the Gilded Balloon stated it provides a platform for 'a wide range of voices' in line with the Fringe's commitment to freedom of expression within the law.
- Knox, who insists she does not joke about the murder, described 'Cartwheel' as an exploration of motherhood in a world 'unfair and dangerous for women,' with shows running until August 17.
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The Toronto Star
Amanda Knox claims show she is performing at Edinburgh festival honors her murdered former flatmate
LONDON (AP) — Amanda Knox, the American student convicted and later acquitted of the gruesome murder and sexual assault of her British flatmate Meredith Kercher 19 years ago in Italy, has defended herself against charges from Kercher’s sister that a…
A very hard attack - from the BBC cameras - that of Meredith Kercher's sister against Amanda Knox for her highly critical comic monologue on the bill tomorrow to 17 August...
Evening Standard
Amanda Knox show ‘trivialises violence against women’ – Meredith Kercher sister
British foreign exchange student Miss Kercher was killed in Perugia, Italy, in 2007.
Amanda Knox Edinburgh Fringe show should be cancelled says victim's family
Amanda Knox’s Edinburgh Fringe show should be cancelled, Meredith Kercher’s family has argued.Ms Knox was twice wrongfully convicted of killing her roommate, and she is set to perform at the Fringe festival in what has been billed as her “finally getting around to being furious about the whole wrongful-imprisonment thing.” Ms Kercher was raped and killed in the Italian city of Perugia by Rudy Guede in 2007, at the age of just 21.The case gained …
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