The vision of artistic director Scott Williams commits us to teaching actors, writers and directors under a unified set of principles designed to promote positive interaction and a common language. Actors are trained to 'live truthfully' under the imaginary set of circumstances represented by a play, film or TV script through the application of a specific and practical technique, represented by a set of exercises and text analysis tools. The Impulse Technique combines our development of the exercises originally devised by Sanford Meisner at Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theater in New York with the positive, supportive approach practiced and promoted by William Ball, founder of the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco.

The Impulse Company offers a year-round programme of discrete courses and Drop Ins, as well as a part-time First Year course in the Technique and a Second Year course which takes the Technique forward into rehearsal and performance, culminating in a two week run under professional conditions.