The Manager in Distress is a 1780 comedy play by George Colman the Elder.
It was written to open the summer season at the Haymarket Theatre on 30 April 1780.
A theatre manager learns that his actors have all left him, meaning he has to cancel his season of plays, only for them to turn up after all.
[1] The play is full of in-jokes including references to Colman himself.
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