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"Millworker the Documentary" cutline“Millworker,”rnthe play about the life of textile mill workers in the 1920s and 1930s,rnby Central Carolina Community College theater instructor Ellen Blandrnand Drew Lasater, one of her former students, captured audiences’rnhearts after it premiered at the historic Chatham Mills in Pittsboro inrn2003. The play and its impact on audiences are chronicled in LindarnBooker’s film ‘Millworker the Documentary,” which will be screened atrnChatham Mills Center at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 21. Admission is a $5 donation.rnAll proceeds will benefit ChathamArts and the ‘Anytown NC’ documentaryrnproject. The cast, which drew praise from critics, consisted of Bland’srntheater students and community members and musicians.