Stage
Stanton played the major supporting role of Peter Joseph Handcock (to Terence Donovan's leading role of Harry 'Breaker' Morant) in the first public performance of Kenneth G. Ross's important Australian play Breaker Morant: A Play in Two Acts, presented by the Melbourne Theatre Company at the Athenaeum Theatre, in Melbourne on Thursday, 2 February 1978. He has since played a great many other roles on stage including the lead in Macbeth.
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