 With a rejuvenated space, the Forest Theater was ready to get back into the theater business.The works of Shakespeare had proven highly popular beginning with Heron's 1911 production of "Twelfth Night", and upon completion of the WPA project, Heron formally resumed productions with the inauguration of the Carmel Shakespeare Festival in 1940.The festival offered Shakespeare, including "Macbeth, Hamlet, Julius Caesar" and "As You Like It", as well as the works of Carmel authors, including the first local production of Robinson Jeffers' "The Tower Beyond Tragedy".