For a brief off-Broadway run last fall, Julio Torres performed his first one-man show. A TED Talk masquerading as absurdist stand-up, Color Theories explained how Torres views the world — not by the colors he sees, but by the colors that represent everything from Real Housewives and step mothers to Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and war crimes.
“It’s less of a thesis and more of a mission statement,” says Torres. “And the mission statement is to attempt to make sense of the world using color as a tool. So it is not so much analyzing colors as it is using colors to analyze.”
Torres says he was not interested in extending the show. Fortunately, HBO captured the performance. And the hour-long results that premiere on the platform Friday are a mix of the cerebral and silly that audiences have come to expect from the Problemista filmmaker and former Saturday Night Live writer. Speaking during
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