Curious what happens when circus meets theater meets fresh-out-of-the-oven lemon bars?

Find out at 7 p.m. Saturday, March 15, when the Seattle-based theatrical circus company, Acrobatic Conundrum, brings its acclaimed show, “The Circus of Second Chances,” to Open Space for Arts & Community.

The show features partner acrobatics, aerial, Cyr wheel, juggling, contortion, slack rope … and baking.

Starring a trio of acrobatics, Terry Crane, Emma Curtiss and Melissa Knowles, the show is billed by Open Space as “a song of praise to the second chances we wish we had, and the evanescent opportunity every moment holds.”

And as though flipping, pirouetting in giant metal hoops, and balancing on a singular strand of rope wasn’t enough, the ensemble bakes lemon bars onstage in a teal blue toaster oven.

“We recruit the audience to help us mix the dough for the crust,” said Crane. “I need the audience member to help because if I get the butter on my fingers, it makes it trickier to hold onto the trapeze. The connection between audience and performer isn’t just a metaphor here.”

Curtiss and Crane are no strangers to Open Space.

They have collaborated with UMO Ensemble members in various productions and performed at the Open Air Festival over the last decade. These two, along with a production team that includes local audio and design wunderkind Max Sarkowsky, count Vashon as an important creative stomping ground. Though they’ve performed this piece more than 40 times in far-flung venues in Manhattan, Boston, and across the Puget Sound region, this will be the first time they mix together these particular theatrical ingredients on Vashon.

The 90-minute show incorporates the life experiences and relationships of the performers into the script — putting their support and trust in each other front and center.

Curtiss, a Cyr wheel performer who has endured a number of brain injuries in her life, said that her co-performers have “made space for my symptoms, my limitations and my dorky little helmet. [They are] the people who have shown me that they love me, even when I don’t feel like a whole person. I’m not sure I would have ever understood how precious that is without this injury.”

Acrobatic Conundrum’s mission states that the ensemble uses circus “to create a more curious, connected, and courageous world.”

“We come together and take turns giving each other our attention, we can make something so sweet out of something sour,” said Crane. “I hope it inspires other people to do the same. You don’t have to be a baker-acrobat.”

Theater polymath and designer Sarkowsky has woven his multiple talents into the fabric of the show. His set design evokes sails and circus tents, while also transforming the stage into a benign bed-fort. And his audio design blends and balances the live oration of the performers with mesmerizing melodies and live music performed by composer Kamila Nasr.

See — and break cake with — the talented performers on March 15, at Open Space. Get tickets at openspacevashon.com.