17 OCTOBER 1987, page 43

Arts

Theatre More placebo than purge Christopher Edwards The Hypochondriac (Lyric Hammersmith) I n a quiet week, the prospect of Tom Courtenay playing the lead in a Moliere comedy......

Grandmaster Of Self-delusion

Nigel Short CHILD OF CHANGE by Garry Kasparov with Donald Trelford Hutchinson, £14.95 M any a player who has become World Champion and has scaled the Mount Olympus of chess,......