Possible Clues:

• Like Benedictines or Trappists
• Minister starting heretical actions in cloisters
• Like monks
• Like religious person stoic man converted
• Way to work cast in plays following order
• Working in resin, living alone
• My French wine, cold according to order?
• Spartan and reclusive
• Austere day as little jerk
• Withdrawn from cast - I'm no use