'[Pape Demba Ndiaye on Makhouredia Gueye] Makhourédia Gueye was a good man, a great artist. Between him and the troupe, it was a long story of love. In the early 1980s, when the troupe had just emerged from a split of Jamoney Tey, he had already retired...it was to have a man of experience, molded by the theater, that we had appealed to him, so that he might come and supervise the troupe.'