“Oliver Twist” musical in Tehran

Oliver escapes from the workhouse and from Fagin’s underworld den, only to be recaptured until he is finally united with his aunt, Rose Maylie, and adopted by Brownlow. The fact that this dismal pattern is eventually broken is entirely due to the intervention of the prostitute Nancy, who brings the two worlds together—but at the price of her violent murder by her lover, Bill Sykes, in one of Dickens’s most bloodthirsty scenes.​​​​​​​