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Amanda Knox is officially trying stand-up comedy—and the family of her murdered former roommate is not laughing. Nearly two decades after Meredith Kercher was killed in Perugia, Italy, Knox has brought an autobiographical show called Cartwheel to Scotland’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe, where she mines her wrongful conviction, imprisonment, and public infamy for material.

The front row of a gig is a sacred space. When you love an artist, you want to be as close to them as possible, without a view obscured by someone else’s hairdo. You want the possibility that the artist will pluck you from the crowd, form a deep and enduring connection and end up…