According to the theater director’s estimate, salaries are unpaid for more than one hundred thousand euros. In total, UIT owes several hundred thousand euros.
Hakaniemi musiikitteatteri Oy, which is behind Uusi Iloisen Teatter’s UIT, has filed for bankruptcy. The applicant is the pension company Varma, which has a total of 33,000 euros in receivables from UIT.
– The situation is bad. Or actually, it’s gross. The ticket sales income is not enough to cover all salary obligations or other payment obligations, Kärkkäinen tells the newspaper.
According to Kärkkäinen’s estimate, there are more than one hundred thousand euros in unpaid wages. In total, UIT owes several hundred thousand euros.
– I can’t say the exact number yet, Kärkkäinen says.
– Above all, the fact that we are not able to take care of salary obligations feels particularly bad. The basic resource of information technology, the skilled professionals, are left in a very difficult situation. But when the money is gone, the money is gone.
According to Kärkkäinen, payment arrears at UIT have accumulated from the spring Kiuruust kesää revue and from the Tukkijoella play seen at the Nilsiä Louhosareena and the Riihivuori theater in the summer in Muurame. The performances drastically fell short of their audience goals.
The time of corona restrictions was also behind us: last year alone, UIT’s profit was a freezing 269,000 euros.
The original Uusi Iloinen Teatteri, founded in 1978, went bankrupt in 2010. Hakaniemen Musiikkiteatteri Oy started running UIT in 2011.
Yle could not reach Timo Kärkkäi.