Before becoming a hugely popular novelist and writer of essays and plays, Jerome K. Jerome spent three appalling years as an actor in a threadbare repertory company. Fortunately, he was later able to turn the experience into this hilarious theatrical memoir, 'On the StageÑAnd Off'. This volume also includes 'Stage-Land', JeromeÕs funny and cynical demolition of the clichŽs of the late-Victorian stage.