WWU show explores life with Parkinson's, MS

There's a moment in "Stories from Jim and Jo" in which Jim Lortz sits in a chair, slowly and wearily stands, raises his arms over his head and bellows.

It is a sound of rage, of fear, of loss.

And it came during a recent rehearsal for the show, which will hit the Mainstage Theatre of the Performing Arts Center at Western Washington University on Sunday, Sept. 26.