Impulse UK Modular Year Course

The majority of students will begin with Module 1, Living Truthfully. Even if you’ve done an introductory course with us, or elsewhere, it can only give you a flavour of what the Technique can deliver.

Students who have already have a significant body of experience with The Impulse Company may begin with either Module 2 – The Given Set of Circumstances – or Module 3 – A State of Aliveness, using it as a showcase opportunity, with Scott’s agreement.

Our total, VAT-inclusive price for the three module course is £2500.

We offer a discount – from the £2500 full cost of the year to £2250 – to students who pay ‘upfront’. We’re also continuing to offer our interest-free deferred payment option, which allows you to spread your payments for each module over four months.

Class sizes vary from year to year but are unlikely to consist of more than 20 people. Between eight and 15 has been the average over the 20 years we’ve been running the course.

Because the Technique is experiential, classes are practical and are, we believe, unique in the amount of personal tuition and feedback you’ll receive.

The course is designed and taught by Impulse Artistic Director Scott Williams with occasional substitution, principally by Trine Garrett, Jacqui-Lee Pryce or Lyn A Dade.

How does it work?

The course is divided into three modules of eight weeks each.

Module 1 – Living Truthfully covers our basic, Meisner-rooted Technique, giving you a deep and experiential grounding in its analysis and exercises, focusing on those which bring you into ‘the moment.’

Module 2 – The Given Set of Circumstances takes the Technique forward into work with ‘the givens’ of performance, including investing in the realities of doing at the heart of any actor’s work.

Module 3 – A State of Aliveness takes your work into text, from the first Reading and text analysis, through to rehearsal techniques, culminating in a performance of scenes for an invited audience.

The course is designed to give you all the information you need during one weekday session plus the Saturday session. You are, however, welcome to attend both weekday sessions depending on your availability. Our focus is on offering you high quality information rather than the quantity of time we take to do it, so classes may run longer or shorter on occasion.

If you take up the deferred payment option, you pay a £250 non-returnable deposit to secure your place, followed by four monthly payments of £187.50 for each module – twelve monthly payments for all three modules.

We can accept payments by card and/or in euros and US and Australian dollars as well as sterling.