 David Zinn was nominated for the Lortel Award in Outstanding Scenic Design.Lyn Gardner of "The Guardian", while noting its length, praised the performance in Edinburgh describing it as "theatrical open-heart surgery on Ernest Hemingway's first major success" done with "surgical expertise and a droll, playful humour" that is too long at nearly four hours.Erik Piepenburg of "The New York Times" says that although words are important to this performance, so are sounds.