The conclusion of the story relates that the rider was the Pied Piper on his way to Hamelin to take away the children.
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In a conversation with Irish drama critic Fintan O'Toole in BOMB Magazine in 1998, McDonagh retold the Brothers Grimm version of Little Red Riding Hood, in which the wolf's stomach is filled with rocks and sewn with green wire, leading to the wolf's death.
His directing credits for HPT include "The Pillowman", "Thom Pain (based on nothing)", "My Child, My Child, My Alien Child", You're No One's Nothing Special, Lonely, The Evidence of Silence Broken, Chopper, The Glory of Living, Radio :30, Ham, Blue Surge, Perdita, Blur, and the world premiere of Art Stripped Naked.