Under the roof of the theater of the festival "Baltic House", St. Petersburg, there has been an experimental stage for 20 years under the direction of Anatoly Praudin. This author's theater with a unique method of working on performances, with expeditions, with a long painstaking rehearsal process. After 20 years the theater came to a certain preaching form of statements. How can such a theater exist in the market world, who is its spectator, what kind of relations do the creative and administrative staff have, how does criticism react to the development of the theater and does it have a future?