Performing Arts: HE AIN'T A LUVVIE He's My Brother; Sera Evans Has Just Spent Seven Months in Germany Teaching English, While Her Olivier Award-Winning Brother Daniel, Rehearsed for Yet Another High-Profile Shakespearean Role. as Soon as Sera Returned Home She Caught Up with Her Rhondda-Born Sibling at Rehearsals. Here She Writes about How She Loves Watching Him Take Centre Stage

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Byline: Sera Evans

SUCH was my relief at touching down at Birmingham airport last week that tears filled my eyes. Although I was pleased to be on British terra firma once again, I was forced to wait before I could cross the border into my beloved Wales.

Having spent a gruelling seven months in Germany, constantly diseased by homesickness, the last thing I wanted to do was make an annoying detour to Warwickshire.

However, the Rhondda was forced to wait just a little longer for my arrival, for Stratford-upon-Avon was my first port of call - not because I had a dreary obligation to a prior engagement but because I was in major need of a culture update and a good old gossip, which I knew would gladly be provided by my brother Daniel who allowed me to sit through a technical rehearsal of his new play, Shakespeare's Measure for Measure.

It seemed like an age since we were last chatting and giggling in each other's company, so I was eager to sit him down over a cup of decaf Earl Grey.

Much has happened in his life since I last saw him and I was desperate to catch up.

While I was pining away for Mam and Dad and my boyfriend in Germany, teaching 11-year-old Germans the words to Puff the Magic Dragon as part of my degree course, whilst chuckling to myself at their being oblivious to the drug-related innuendo, Daniel had rehearsed and opened The Tempest at The Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, flown to New York to perform in a workshop of a new musical intended for Broadway (about which he is very cagey!), and …