What we call family often decides what we call love” says Kshitij S, a 29-year-old playwright based in Versova, as he speaks about his upcoming performance on May 17, Farewell: An Entropy of Separation. The performance examines the trickle-down effect that patriarchy can have on family dynamics, as the writer embodies the psyche of a woman called Firdaus on stage, “All the women in my life — including my mother and my friends — their conflicts, dilemmas and repressed desires, all of them make up my character in Farewell: An Entropy of Separation,” adds the theatre person, whose roots go back to Indore, while explaining the process behind her characterisation.