In The Theatre of Plants, the garden depicted in Aurélia de Souza's painting In the Shade (n.d.) is invoked through the listening of a web of very brief narratives constructed and recited by Isabel Carvalho. These narratives stem from the painter's biographical data and from observations and recommendations fictionally exchanged over extended generations, between mothers and daughters, between sisters, and between daughters who become "mothers," in a familial theatre of mutual care, recreated beyond linear kinship. Overall, an effort has been made to provide literary representation to what is commonly considered insignificant (with little or devalued meaning), recording the familiarity of exchanged gestures and the relationships of complicity established between humans and animals, plants, the sea, and the river, thus complexifying the sense of coexistence. In contrast to the brevity of what is heard, images of a ceramic panel, composed of various gardens in the city, are projected at a slow pace, disrupting expectations of common time experience and focusing attention on the moment. For this composition, Kali/João Leonardo created a soundscape, structured from the natural elements implicit in the narratives.