What is the opening line of Edward Albee's play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (1962)?

“Jesus H. Christ” is the first line of Edward Albee’s play Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, and the first of many profanities in Albee’s look into a destructive marriage.

A London production changed the first line to “Mary H. Magdalen.”

“Jesus H. Christ” is the first line of the play, and the
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