Stratton performed in many first-run productions of plays by early career playwrights, some of whom became important in British avant-garde theatre.
Among the plays in which Stratton performed were David Edgar's The End (1972), a history of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, Howard Brenton's Scott of the Antarctic (1971), also known as Scott of the Antarctic on Ice, and Richard Crane's Crippen: A Music-Hall Melodrama (1971), which the cast took to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in the same year.
Stratton's work critically examines aspects of everyday life, and popular music, centered on issues of identity and cultural specificity.
His published works include articles on soap operas, subculture, cyberspace, postmodernity, the body, and the role of race and multiculturalism in Australian culture.
Stratton is actively publishing and is an adjunct professor in the School of Creative Industries at University of South Australia.