Layann Basileh is an Arab-American writer based in Southern California, currently nursing an iced coffee addiction. The 'damsel in distress' trope is a common female character archetype, in which a ...

You can’t have a good melodrama without certain elements — a villain, a hero and a damsel in distress — and Merino Drama’s fall play has them all. “Dirty Work Afoot” by Sherry Roseberry, produced with ...