NUMBER 1
E.V. Crowe
Performed by Landry Adelard
Directed by Tim Hoare
Director of Photography Crusoe Weston
Editor Ali White
Sound Technician Tom Anderson
Camera Assistant Rory Ronnie
Thanks to Ollie Dahmen
1.
Come in sit down.
Heās fucking my mum.
Oh my gosh.
Come in sit down.
Who do you want?
Put your pen down. Listen.
Who do you think you want?
(Pause.)
We think about it.
I say the one with the red case.
Good idea, nice ide-a.
He says donāt piss about in my class.
Are you pissing about?
Iām not ā FUCKOFF.
2.
Bell and they come out.
Who dāyou come up with?
Iām keen.
Alistair Darling?
Wha?
Or manager at a bank.
Wha?
Or trader at Canary Wharf.
Cool.
David Beckham.
ā
Who we getting then?
Who then?
(āNumber 1ā by Tinchy Stryder plays.)
Star-in-the-Hood-Stryder? Oh, come on. Come on.
I was into that track for like a week, thatās old now.
And why do they think we want Tinchy to come down here give us his pearls of?
Iām taller than Tinchy.
Fuck Tinchy man.
If heās so business, whyās he got time to come to our school. I bet heās āsextingā Miss Streatham.
Not that I donāt not want to meet him.
I am quite excited about meeting Tinchy Stryder.
Oh my gosh.
Tinchy was my suggestion. I would have suggested that.
Come on. (Hums the track.) That was a good song. Come on.
3.
Come in sit down.
Heās fucking my mum. Sheās saying āThis is my boyfriend.ā
Come in sit down.
Shut the door.
Iāve had a report.
None of the girls can come in tomorrow until weāve unblocked them.
Theyāre all blocked up.
Itās health and safety. That they canāt come in. Thanks to you.
The Room 7 girls wonāt get to meet Tinchy Stryder. Or to learn about Personal Finance on our Personal Finance Day with Tinchy Stryder. And their books are stuck down the girlsā toilets.
You definitely wonāt get to meet Mr Stryder. Tinchy says āmore important than making money is looking after your moneyā. Do you know about interest rates, Tinchy rates?
I can google it, canāt I?
Youāre excluded for tomorrow.
Miss Streatham wants to know why you did it.
Oh my gosh.
Look at Miss Streatham.
Because when you give a girl a job she will get pregnant. Eventually. Itās true. They do. They do. And then sheāll fuck it up. So I thought, flush their books.
Classroom 7 girls could just be on PlayStation. Or something. All day.
Donāt they deserve learning too? Thatās Miss Streatham asking.
ā Whatās the point? Really.
Miss S looks sad face.
4.
My mum.
She can come in and talk.
About being a successful woman.
Does she have a job?
She had a job yeah. Before.
Okay.
Why your mum?
Sheās a successful woman. My mum.
In what way is she a successful woman?
I donāt understand. She doesnāt have a number-one record called āNumber 1ā. Sheās not Tinchy Stryder. Iām not saying my mum is Tinchy Stryder.
Oh my gosh.
Sheās just like, I donāt know, you said I had to do something to say sorry. To the Classroom 7 girls.
She can talk about being successful.
Okay.
Okay. Cool.
5.
Other mums come in also.
They call it a ābe nice to women dayā. Or someshit.
A womenās day. Like for girls. Cool, cool.
Yeh-yeh-yeah.
They talk about being on the till, or being a PA for a big bank, or being a nurse. What that is like.
Whereās your mum?
(Pause.)
I donāt know.
Whereās your successful mum?
I actually donāt know.
I do know.
I donāt know actually.
Donāt be a girl about this. The school office can give her a call to remind her.
I wonāt try calling. No need.
She canāt reach the phone.
I know it.
You canāt get to the phone from the radiator. No way.
Silence.
She is bike-locked to the radiator until the afternoon.
This is my boyfriend. Heās moving in.
Iām Lee. Iām moving in.
Why is she bike-locked to the radiator?
(Pause.)
Oh my gosh, I donāt know. It makes it easier?
Ask him. Lee.
Tell hi...