This chapter explores performance training in Europe focusing on the interrelation between professional theatre practice and formal education. It provides an overview of the evolution of performance education and analyses three case studies to address different educational strategies and their influences on the professional stage. The first case study examines the division between text-based and devised theatre of the curricular in actor training in Spain. The second case study focuses on practice as research in the UK. In contrast, the third case study considers the relationship between conservatoire training and professional theatre in Russia.
