Last year\'s edition of the Festival presented the latest performance by Jan Klata – Koprofagi, czyli znienawidzeni, ale niezbędni – based on Joseph Conrad\'s Under Western Eyes and The Secret Agent. The latter was finished by Conrad in 1907, in more or less the middle of his most creative times. The novel treats of an Englishman with the French name of Verloc, a secret agent of some foreign embassy working as a salesman to avoid recognition. The protagonist is commissioned with a task, an idiotic act of terror designed to shock the world with its purely destructive absurdity – to blow up an observatory in Greenwich. Eventually, the mentally handicapped brother of Mrs. Verloc – innocent as a lamb – is killed as a result of the attack while the alleged perpetrator of the assassination attempt, Mr. Verloc, comes out intact. The other text by Conrad that Klata used in his performance – Under Western Eyes – tells the story of a circle of Russian revolutionists and anarchists in Petersburg and Switzerland.